Planting malware art on the chips themselves is very common and a huge problem for data and operational security.
Chips have become so complex and the circuit densities so high it's very difficult to detect the corrupt circuitry
Producing mission critical chips in places like China is a serious national security risk.
That is one of the reasons for the large military budgets, chip replacement and that is probably why the new Beast was delayed for the last year 1 1/2
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