The moment US Govt/Mil put china chips into their system computers, it was over.
Trace back to the people responsible for allowing china sourced hardware, arrest them, put them on trial, convict and execute them for treason because a 2 year old could see this coming.
It made compromising our system childs play because those chips are KNOWN to be backdoored. We already KNOW it.
This problem will not be fixed, ever, as long as those china sourced hardware parts remain in use. Then we will have a chance at defending against straight up hacking.
They don’t even need the chips
Those stories turned out to be bogus.
There were definitely counter fitted chips in cisco gear, but they did not have the capability to be remotely re-programmed.
Given the left’s penchant for pedantry with words (see various recent Supreme Court decisions, all the back to Bubba’s “it depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is”)...
“cruel and unusual punishments” are forbidden.
So if impose cruel punishments, but make them common, it’s no longer “cruel *AND* unusual” is it?
Hell, we could even force them to listen to taped speeches of Teh One stuttering on a repeating loop ... (like that 7 minute loop Rush Limbaugh did) ...24x 7 until they crack.
Then dress them up like a fetus and let Dr. Nucatola have a crack at them...