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Iirc the chips were supposedly found near the SPI flash for the BIOS if you can locate that, probably close to the IPMI/BMC chip.


Someone needs to build nmap-style probe hardware that could be connected to the SPI bus and scan every device on it.


SPI works by paralleling all of the shared lines, and each chip having its own CS line. So you can't really enumerate like that, without already having enumerated the CS lines.

I2C works closer to how you're thinking, but even there a hostile implant doesn't need to have an protocol-dictated address to corrupt someone else's traffic.


Ok, I will have a look if I can see anything interesting near the serial flash device.


The other article about this on hn front page make reference to an animation of where the chip is


Sorry, wasn't on HN for a bit, which other article was that?




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