This is disturbing, to say the least. Given how much effort I've invested in securing myself, it's... disappointing. The rationale, it seems, is that government doesn't count as "someone to be concerned about", from a security point of view.

I'm curious about how one would be associated with a particular chip. I understand that key strokes can be logged, TCP/IP can be read; you can be scraped, but ultimately how is their backdoor aware of you so that it doesn't appear to them like needle in a stack of needles. A fascinating and revolting technical conundrum.