Nvidia warns of “disaster” if it has to put kill switch and backdoor in chips
by Jon Brodkin from Ars Technica - All content on (#6Z565)
Nvidia said there are no backdoors or kill switches in its chips, denying an accusation from the Chinese government. The company also urged policymakers to reject proposals for backdoors and kill switches.
"There are no back doors in NVIDIA chips. No kill switches. No spyware. That's not how trustworthy systems are built-and never will be," Nvidia Chief Security Officer David Reber Jr. wrote in a blog post yesterday.
The Cyberspace Administration of China last week said it held a meeting with Nvidia over "serious security issues" in the company's chips and claimed that US AI experts "revealed that Nvidia's computing chips have location tracking and can remotely shut down the technology."