I was just thinking that we should hand over the ability to brick our technology to US politicians. Seeing as how they aren’t all horrible pieces of shit.
One US politician wants to add trackers to Nvidia's GPUs so they can be bricked if they go to China
Submitted 5 days ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.zip
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_cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
Bublboi@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
Kill switch. Didn’t I hear that wasn’t a thing?
Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 5 days ago
It’s called the power connector.
henfredemars@infosec.pub 5 days ago
If you think China or the Internet in general can’t crack whatever stupid DRM you have planned, you’ll be really disappointed.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Or just develop their version.
j4k3@lemmy.world 5 days ago
This is a surveillance state and this man should be run out of town or stoned for suggesting such authoritarian nonsense. Such deranged overreach is disgusting the the duty of everyone to fight against.
charade_you_are@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
I think Nvidia is kind of company that would consider this
beeng@discuss.tchncs.de 5 days ago
Nvidia make shittone from selling to China, so long as they can still sell to China, they will make whatever is allowed to be sent there. New restrictions? New cards get created to fit.
onlinepersona@programming.dev 5 days ago
I bet this will be out into a military plane and it’ll brick while flying over China or close to it. The genius of these people cannot be understated. Imagine, if they’re saying this publicly, I bet you they have this in existing military equipment they are selling to partners. Anybody buying military equipment from the US is asking for trouble.
Kurious84@eviltoast.org 5 days ago
Who’s asking for this? Is it a billionaire antichrist
altphoto@lemmy.today 3 days ago
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dohpaz42@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Yeah, that’s not a potential for abuse… both by the “good guys” 🙄 and everyone else.
chaosCruiser@futurology.today 5 days ago
Once every GPU hacker in the world starts dumping their free time on a challenge like this, you can expect that a vulnerability will be discovered and exploited. Imagine, there’s a virus just waiting for the order to brick your GPU? How about you use that virus to attack a specific country, city or even an individual politician whose proposals you don’t agree with. The possibilities are endless!
Everything is hackable. It’s just a matter of knowing how to do it.