Nvidia Urges US: No Location Verification, Backdoors
Reuters, Beijing, August 6 In a blog post, Nvidia reiterated that its processors lacked kill switches or backdoors and urged American lawmakers to reject such notions, claiming that doing so would be a “gift” to hostile actors and hackers.
A week after the Chinese government called a meeting with the U.S. artificial intelligence (AI) chip giant to express its concerns about a U.S. proposal to equip advanced chips sold overseas with tracking and positioning capabilities, the blog post was published on Tuesday in both Chinese and English.
To stop chips from being diverted to nations where U.S. export regulations prohibit sales, the White House and both chambers of the U.S. Congress are forcing U.S. chip companies to embed location verification equipment with their chips. No technical requirements have been set, and neither the White House suggestion nor the individual laws have been formally adopted as regulations.
It would be a gift to hackers and other bad actors to incorporate kill switches and backdoors into chips. It would erode confidence in American technology and threaten the world’s digital infrastructure,” Nvidia stated. Last week, it declared that none of its devices had backdoors that would have permitted remote access or control.
A backdoor is a covert way to get around standard security or authentication measures.
Nvidia pointed out that “there is no such thing as a ‘good’ secret backdoor – only dangerous vulnerabilities that need to be eliminated.”
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