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Re:The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Am... by folli on Thursday October 04, 2018 @08:10AM (#18139124)
The chinese government is probably not interested enough in credit card numbers to warrant involvement.
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Re:The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Am... by lmilcin on Thursday October 04, 2018 @08:34AM (#18139301)
It would be foolish to show your hand for few pennies.
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Re:The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Am... by jandrese on Thursday October 04, 2018 @10:48AM (#18140378)
Might make a difference if those pennies can't be tracked back to the government.
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Re:The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Am... by malandrew on Thursday October 04, 2018 @11:57AM (#18141042)
Yup. This would be the modern equivalent of Air America and other schemes by the CIA to raise money to operate by involving themselves in illegal activity like the drug trade.
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Re:The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Am... by jessaustin on Thursday October 04, 2018 @12:54PM (#18141563)
One would consider those activities to have taken place in "modern" times as well...
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Re:The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Am... by acct1771 on Friday October 05, 2018 @03:27AM (#18146356)
You're not suggesting the CIA is out of the drug business...are you?
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Re:The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Am... by jandrese on Saturday October 06, 2018 @09:38PM (#18158407)
Iran/Contra got the CIA into a lot of hot water with Congress. They had some pretty stringent restrictions put in place as a result.

https://www.csmonitor.com/1987/1113/aintel.html

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Re:The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Am... by Nasrudith on Thursday October 04, 2018 @11:51AM (#18140987)
People said the same thing about personal detail metadata as well. While theft would be foregone foolishness tracking transactions could have value to them. Granted it would probably be easier to snoop on the fiscal institutions.
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