* Posts by Jiri Gaisler

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FBI probe discovers counterfeit kit in US military networks

Jiri Gaisler
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Poor fact check ...

" ...how they were able to modify a Sun Microsystems SPARC microprocessor to effectively create a hardwired backdoor .."

The compromised CPU was the LEON3 SPARC processor from Gaisler Research, not a SUN CPU. The conference paper is here if somebody actually wants to read it ...

https://db.usenix.org/events/leet08/tech/full_papers/king/king.pdf