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Re:The FBI, CIA and NSA say American citizens shouldn't use ... by kragen on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @05:24PM (#16380064)
The US has 23,000 soldiers in South Korea.

It may also be relevant that there are no US-manufactured phones. Indeed, even Samsung phones are full of chips from mainland China and Taiwan.

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Re:The FBI, CIA and NSA say American citizens shouldn't use ... by gnode on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @09:25PM (#16381467)
Isn't the issue more about design though? It seems to me that it'd be easy enough to take a random sample of chips made by your Chinese manufacturer, cut the top off and verify it matches your design with a microscope. However if the complex product is designed by an adversary it's easier to hide a backdoor, probably also easier to plausibly claim it was an accidental bug.
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