No backdoor, no kilt switch, no spyware. It is NVidia’s vow following an allegation from China’s cyberspace administration, who said last week to provide documents about security weaknesses in Novidia’s H20 Data Center GPU, especially citing “backdoor” security risks. NVidia officially responded With a blog post The company’s Chief Security Officer, David Reber Junior.
Reber wrote, “Embanding backdars and killing switches in chips would be a gift for hackers and hostile actors.” “This will reduce global data infrastructure and fracture trust in American technology. The established law needs companies to cure weaknesses-don’t make them.”
The cyberspace administration of China’s concerns especially stems from the NVidia’s H20 GPU, designed for the Chinese market and designed to follow the US export guidelines. ARS Technica notes That American legalists are considering a chip protection act, which will require “location verification,” and “” exports exported to assess the mechanism to prevent unauthorized use. ” In other words, a kilo switch.
If you have seen Lockpicking lawyer For a few minutes on YouTube too, you know that there is no such thing as a lock that cannot be chosen-for those who require more specific equipment. The same hardware goes for backdoor. Once there is a door, someone will find a way to walk through it. Nvidia makes some as universal as GPU, which inhabited data centers and consumer PCs worldwide, especially for attractive targets.
Cits Reber “Clipper Chip Debkal“In which the NSA and the US government pushed for a chip for a chip in telecommunications equipment, allowing backdoor access through an encrypted key. Launched in 1993, security experts found several weaknesses over the next few years, and fell out of the side before adopting the chip.
“Security researchers discovered fundamental flaws in the system that could allow malicious parties to tamper with software,” and “it created central weaknesses that could be exploited by opponents.” In other words, the use of such backward doors may provide access to GPU to the US government, but it will also reach other governments and other malicious actors with some efforts.
Reber said, “Some features of smartphones ‘Find My Phone’ … as a model for a GPU Kill switch,” Reber said, stating that they are user-controlled software options. “Hardwiering a Kill Switch is somewhat different: an open invitation for a permanent defects beyond user control, and an open invitation for disaster … it is not a sound policy.
“For decades, policy makers have made industry efforts to make safe, reliable hardware,” Reber wrote. “Governments have many equipment to protect nations, consumers and economy. Intentionally weakening important infrastructure should not be one of them.”