Comment on Bill that would mandate AI chip location tracking gains industry support
SomeRandomNoob@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
Makes me wonder how the US implements the tracking and how many days the Chinese need to circumvent it.
The Chinese splice 4090 dies onto boards with 48GB VRAM on them. I don’t think this will be very hard for them to circumvent.
Rather, I’m hoping whatever “safeguard” they implement accidentally causes some fuse to pop in all the unmodded chips, turning all but the Chinese “black market” ones into paper weights. Maybe that’s what it takes for this idiocy to end.
It’s probable possible to make circumvention fairly difficult. Though my guess is that since Nvidia’s corporate interests don’t align with this, they will make it simple as rocks.
Study, copy and then circumvent.
Embrace, extend, extinguish has a long and storied domestic history. But when China does it, it’s bad. These days, we copy them at least as much as they copy us.
BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Intel already has a micro code OS on the chip that runs separate from the main OS such as Windows. So tracking is very easy to setup. The micro code has access to your network, keyboard, and other hardware even with the PC turned off (but still connected to power and Ethernet/WiFi).
The original intention of the Intel Management system was for corporations tracking their assets in the field for admin purposes and blocking stuff if stolen.
But as with any backdoor it was hacked in 2017 when hackers found that whn sending a null password to chip remotely, the device would grant full access to the system.
I now disable/deactivate that in BIOS, and future purchases will be AMD chip.
My intel system got hit by the null password attack, windows event logs showed it granted access without credentials on several occasions and they’d turned my camera on at a low system level in a way where the camera on light did not show.
A random teams meeting got me investigating after coworkers said they could see my video feed even though I toggled it off.
Had to search online for a command line string to turn camera off at a lower level because the apps and windows GUI settings did nothing.