Desperate Hacker

Chapter 342 is still social engineering

The E200 chip produced by NXP is mainly used in some cost-sensitive fields, such as automobiles and aviation.

Therefore, this chip can be said to be of high quality and low price.

In fact, this chip was developed for this market.

Chen Qingfeng had never dealt with NXP before.

Of course, he is talking about dealing with customers.

However, Chen Qingfeng has used Freescale chips.

Because of this company, he once participated in a robot design competition held by the other party.

I even won half a semester's living expenses.

At that time, as long as he signed up for the competition and had the status of a college student, Chen Qingfeng could go directly to the other company's official website to apply for a free trial chip.

Then the company will send the chip to his school.

Speaking of which, after winning the competition, Chen Qingfeng also had the opportunity to intern at that company.

But it is a pity that Chen Qingfeng was arrogant at that time.

He gave up this internship opportunity because he was already developing his own work on the machine learning platform.

I haven't touched anything like this in years.

But it was quite easy for Chen Qingfeng to pick it up.

In fact, it didn't take long for him to figure out 7788 on the chip he got.

But the way hackers think about a product is different from ordinary people.

What Chen Qingfeng has to do is to find the loopholes in the platform built based on this chip.

See if there are any opportunities.

But after he first got started, Chen Qingfeng, who originally thought it was easy, suddenly got stuck.

The system developed by the Persians looks simple, but in fact the other party is already prepared.

After Chen Qingfeng studied it carefully, he found that he was a little exaggerated.

For a moment, Chen Qingfeng lost his train of thought.

So he dug through his list of vulnerabilities.I want to see if some of the semiconductor vulnerabilities discovered by Americans before can be applied to this NXP chip.

Unfortunately not!
Chen Qingfeng knew that he couldn't be so blind as to kill the rat, and it seemed that he had to resort to social engineering.Learn about the technology behind this chip from a developer's perspective.

Chen Qingfeng's theory is not groundless. It is said that Intel's chips have backdoors, which can even allow their engineers to remotely steal everything that customers do when operating their computers.

This is also the reason why some important departments are not allowed to use foreign chips.

The chip manual will never say whether engineers will tamper with the chip.

And these hidden attributes are all locked in the company's intellectual property library.

Therefore, Chen Qingfeng concluded that this chip should have similar means. After all, if some intelligence agencies request to control a certain device, some companies simply cannot refuse.

……

It seems that we can only wait for Duke's action.

Duke has resigned from the Medallion Fund.

But after all, this guy worked in a large investment company on Wall Street, so his identity and his unique qualities as a professional cannot be deceived.

What Chen Qingfeng has to do now is to ask Duke to make up a non-existent investment institution in his own name, and then go to NXP to conduct research.

……

It seems that we will have to spend a few days waiting for news from over there.

……

I didn't go to the company all day.Chen Qingfeng was also happy and doing something he liked in the room.

Zhao Changan bought an oscilloscope, power supply, and other equipment as he requested.

Then the company set aside a special laboratory!

Seeing such fanfare, the employees of Evergreen Technology were surprised to find out why the company suddenly became interested in hardware.

In fact, they didn't know that the company was engaged in another hidden business that was crucial to life and death.

……

Duke acted quite quickly. After agreeing to Chen Qingfeng, he appeared in the Netherlands within two days.

Then, as a partner of Vanguard Investment Company, he sent a request for research to the company.

Wall Street investors came to the Netherlands in person to investigate the project, although they only sent an email in an official way.

And no one had heard of Pioneer’s previous investments.

NXP still attaches great importance to this.

Chen Qingfeng didn't know what tricks Duke used, but the other party actually agreed to send an engineer to connect with them online!
Chen Qingfeng originally thought that this matter would have to wait for a few days.Who knew that it only took one day for Duke to send him good news.

"Peak! They told me that the R&D center of this chip is located in Berlin, and the engineers there will introduce me to a series of information about this chip!"

"I don't understand! Why are they so happy?"

"Ah! Based on my analysis, I said something they wanted to hear! Before I came, I did some research and found that they seemed to hope to use this chip in the field of machine learning. You also know that NVIDIA has relied on artificial intelligence in the past two years. and machine learning are going crazy. Now any semiconductor company wants to get involved, and Europe is not lagging behind..."

"and then?"

"I said that an AI intelligence company I invested in could try to borrow their platform, but there are currently no successful cases and their engineering personnel need to be connected!"

"Awesome! So they're willing to answer all my questions?"

"Probably! But if you ask about the backdoor of the chip, I guess they won't tell you even to death!"

"Okay! I didn't expect you to do such a great job!"

"I just sent a few emails! Don't praise me like that, I will be a proud speaker!"

……

Chen Qingfeng thinks there is no better news than this!Originally, he didn't have much time, but now the engineers directly communicate with the engineers. Is there anything more direct than this?

But if you want to connect with the other party, you must first deceive the other party.

At the very least, you have to build an artificial intelligence platform.

Chen Qingfeng suddenly remembered that he had a ready-made one.

That was the medical data stolen from Yufeng Intelligent Company when the Tianqi team invaded.

Now the sample library generated by the data is sitting on its own server.

No need to be white!
Those things are just enough to scare people!

So Chen Qingfeng temporarily rented some servers from overseas cloud server manufacturers, and then tried to deploy Yufeng Intelligent's entire system on these cloud platforms.

These things took him about 5 hours.

So much so that I worked until night without even realizing it.

Chen Qingfeng set the alarm clock and took a nap.

In the evening, he quietly came to the company, followed immediately by Zhou Yaojie and Zhao Changan, while Duke logged in remotely. In this way, the three parties formed a temporary video conference.

The meeting used a foreign online meeting software.

However, it is impossible for Chen Qingfeng to reveal his face, and Duke certainly has a way.

"Everyone, it's a pleasure to meet you. I'm an engineer for NXP's [-] and [-] projects. My name is Robin. I heard that you have some questions about machine learning that you want to consult with us?"

(End of this chapter)