The malware of the chip could be designed to activate via an online signal command to take over control of your PC and use a weapon to attack networks and online sites via everything from a simple flooding of bandwidth type denial of service attacks to more sophisticated schemes by which an adversary takes control of the computer, turns it into a zombie that links up with other zombies to create a organic cloud type super computing network that could do some serious damage
Yea, those thoughts crossed what little’s left of my mind,
but until some wizard comes up with a way to neutralize the threat on a per machine basis,
I’m at a loss as to what most folks can do about it, unfortunately.
You have to wonder what the Chicoms’ next move will be now that their little micro mole has been outed . . .