The first casualty in any war is the truth.
Used to get mimi-floppy disks with malware and viruses pre-installed for my convenience. Nothing new.
Made in China is special ,LOL
Anyone who thinks China is innocent in any form of theft and espionage, is insanely stupid or works for China.
Bkmrk.
Is this why they pay so much for Apple products ?
Apple has no idea what is in their products. Like most everyone else, Samsung and other manufacturers build the technology components of their phones.
‘The chips, which Bloomberg said have been the subject of a top secret U.S. government investigation starting in 2015, were used for gathering intellectual property and trade secrets from American companies and may have been introduced by a Chinese server company called Super Micro that assembled machines used in the centers.’ [snip]
I just read the emergency test yesterday was actually a test of these spy-chip infected systems.
Some people are saying the small number of those who didn’t get the message were infected. I am of the belief that they are actually the ones NOT infected.
Probably more concerning, the hardware is/was widely used in the military, including for processing drone footage...
Chips? Probably not. Features in coding including the CPU operating system, good chance.
Imagine what the Brennan / CIA, and Comey/FBI might have learned about this, had they not spent all their time trying to overthrow Donald Trump?
It will be painful to the wallet but we need to stop sourcing all our electronic products through Chinese factories. They are not trustworthy players. If you want a cheap knock-off phone that may have spy chips in it, I’m sure you’ll still be able to get a Chinese phone. But if you want a phone or a PC that isn’t relaying everything to Beijing via Chinese made chips, we’d have to open some microelectronics plants that WE control and build them there. And that will add a lot of cost due to the fact that we don’t use slave labor. So be it.
Anybody believe that the Chinese government could insert a “chip” into an Iphone at the factory, and that Apple somehow missed that inside that tiny case in the QC process? That somehow the point on the assembly line where it was inserted, and the billion chips somehow escaped notice?
PT Barnum was right.