alt Hacker NewsWhat do you want to bet ALL GPU's being manufactured by US sources have NSA requirements that now have built into the chips and firmware interesting "controls". They know what region of the world the chip is in, they have features to "brick them" in case of war, etc. Encrypted communication back to US servers required, or if denied, then GPU will not function, etc.
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sneak • last Wednesday at 6:11 PM
I’d bet good money. The chips have been decapped and roughly analyzed, the only information going into or out of them is from the host systems. Those are easy to convince they are anywhere. Chips don’t have wifi or gps or radios of any kind inside of them, and what the nvidia drivers send and receive to the world is easy to audit.
You give the tech too much credit.
I’d be curious to hear how that could be achieved at a technical level.
Presumably everything youre describing could be averted by simply air gapping the hardware? Or tightly controlling how data gets into and out of the system where the chips are used?