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huemens said:

Not saying they have backdoors. But it's not impossible to backdoor if they want to.
Big Hyperscalers don't buy individual PCIe cards. They buy pre-built servers with GPUs. In that case backdooring is extremely easy. For example all the existing AMD and Intel processors already have a hidden computer, which is effectively a backdoor. It's a complete subsystem with a CPU core, it's own RAM and it's own operating system (Minix in the case of Intel). They operate at a ring beyond the reach of the host OS kernel, has the ability to read all the data that goes through the CPU, has the ability to reach internet and phone home without the knowledge of the host OS.
Even in the case of discrete cards it's not impossible to do nefarious things. It connects to a PCIe port so it could in theory emulate almost any kind of peripheral including input devices and network interfaces.

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While the idea of a "backdoor" is plausible, the idea is a bit far fetched because phone home attempts would be pretty easily detected by firewalls that these servers typically run behind. And frankly, any big hyperscaler with a budget to buy these servers should have a competent enough IT department to not put these servers on a network with access to the open internet.

pokepara said:

This is like 90's 1337 shit.

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Also, pagers shouldn't explode, right?

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can we please refrain from straw man and false equivalence type arguments?

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I cannot read Japanese. All I know is 之 = の and that is it.

Just from that, I can tell this article was about something I read before this day, that this incident, the PLAAF locked onto their aircraft at 52 km at first, then later locked on at 148 km on a second time.

FriedButter said:

It feels like there is a shift in narrative. They use to complain that Chinese products being “cheap” because of inexpensive labor and non-existent slave labor. Now they are whining about the Yuan is being undervalued despite the fact the price of the Yuan has mostly been stable against the Euro/Dollar for the last decade. Saw people whining about this exact thing on Reddit. They are probably dreaming of Plaza Accord 2.0 where they can create a massive bubble and destroy China economy.

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Yeah, I noticed it too.

My reasoning for this, is different, that I believe the new visa travel policies implemented by the PRC allowing visa free travel into China, has been an information explosion.

During the pandemic, all the foreigners left China, there were none left. Then a few trickled in.

Then there was a surge of travel into China (within this year) with the new visa policies making it hassle free to come to China for a lot of countries citizens.

My feelings about it, dealing with white people, is that most of them are not rabid ideologues. So when they get new information, they are welcoming towards it.

They go to China, expecting to find the enemy, but they find that no one really cares inside China about that too much, then they themselves are having too much fun inside to care that China is suppose to be the enemy.

The narrative dissolve like sugar in water.

The only people who will maintain the anti-China narrative and that China is not doing well is the Indians. They cannot keep a lid on inside their own country if they allow the truth.

Everyone else, they have a clear picture now. The narrative is forced to change, otherwise they will look like fools.

Poor comrade Chang. Being on Faux News was not a move up. It was really just exile.

CNY has been the strongest major Asian currency in the post-Covid era.

How come Japan Korea or India trade surpluses aren't at record highs? Japan and India even has a goods trade deficit this year.

It’s pretty evident that the Dutch are all in on the Anglo centric world order; a sharp lesson is warranted

Chevalier said:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1998470397549744473

It’s pretty evident that the Dutch are all in on the Anglo centric world order; a sharp lesson is warranted

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Usually, counter-intelligence operations are top secret just like intelligence missions. Imagine how much of a joke China thinks the Dutch and Taiwanese are by releasing this LOL

manqiangrexue said:

Usually, counter-intelligence operations are top secret just like intelligence missions. Imagine how much of a joke China thinks the Dutch and Taiwanese are by releasing this LOL

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We're discussing it further in this thread:
Not only were their movements and photos released, we even have things like this:


Colonel David Yu's extra baggage fee to China Airlines, due to his excessive shopping in Amsterdam during his mission.
Perhaps out of those six members of ROC Military Intelligence Bureau there were at least one 峨眉峰.

Chevalier said:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1998470397549744473

It’s pretty evident that the Dutch are all in on the Anglo centric world order; a sharp lesson is warranted

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Of course the dutch elites are all in on the Anglo centric world, they are pretty much top level royalty in this world order. Just look up who took over the UK, created the bank of England inspired by the Bank of Amsterdam. Which become the blueprint for all central banks world wide. Also who founded New York. Any source of western banking the dutch elite probably have their fingers in it.

Also the VOC in todays value would easily eclipsed Nvidia etc in value. It would have potentially been valued at $8~11 trillion dollar. The company might have been disbanded but all that wealth generated over the centuries of colonial plunder, must have gone somewhere. Probably invested into Europe and the Americas for centuries..

huemens said:

Not saying they have backdoors. But it's not impossible to backdoor if they want to.
Big Hyperscalers don't buy individual PCIe cards. They buy pre-built servers with GPUs. In that case backdooring is extremely easy. For example all the existing AMD and Intel processors already have a hidden computer, which is effectively a backdoor. It's a complete subsystem with a CPU core, it's own RAM and it's own operating system (Minix in the case of Intel). They operate at a ring beyond the reach of the host OS kernel, has the ability to read all the data that goes through the CPU, has the ability to reach internet and phone home without the knowledge of the host OS.
Even in the case of discrete cards it's not impossible to do nefarious things. It connects to a PCIe port so it could in theory emulate almost any kind of peripheral including input devices and network interfaces.

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If I was US, I would put on hardware level zero-day exploits so it can auto-brick itself upon signal from CUDA or firmware updates. Or even more clever is "contamination" of Chinese training models by randomly retarding GPU performance in imperceptible non-randomized bias way at the hardware (and software level) to order to introduce bias and hamper training efforts. Basically, any dependence on Nvidia CUDA software or hardware is a trojan horse waiting to happen. It's even easier than Stutnex worm because they control hardware and software updates.