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Re:The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Am... by whydoineedthis on Thursday October 04, 2018 @02:50PM (#18142499)
OMG, that is so so so so brilliant! I'm going to go tell my boss right now that the suppliers better suite up, otherwise we are going right to their more expensive, less experienced vendor and will delay our product launch for a year....and likely still suffer the same problem. Those Chinese vendors better shape up or we're going to really teach them a lesson by driving ourself out of business right quick!
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Re:The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Am... by PurpleBoxDragon on Thursday October 04, 2018 @03:29PM (#18142904)
Just imagine for a second if someone was advocating on HN for the use of a web framework that has knowingly allowed itself to be compromised to steal passwords because it was cheaper to use.

How about a compromise? If any of your customers are a victim of a crime because you continued to use a shady but cheap vendor after seeing them trying to slip past tampered hardware, your company is held fiscally and criminally responsible.

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Re:The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Am... by lmilcin on Thursday October 04, 2018 @04:04PM (#18143191)
You mean like couple of well known platforms that let you reach their users and in the meantime steal, mine and monetize user information?
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Re:The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Am... by pixl97 on Thursday October 04, 2018 @03:53PM (#18143115)
So no more using Intel?
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Re:The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Am... by yellowapple on Thursday October 04, 2018 @04:13PM (#18143263)
Leaving an abusive relationship tends to be scary, especially if the victim is convinced that the abuser is the least bad. Doesn't mean the thought of ending that relationship should be dismissed out of hand.
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Re:The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Am... by orochi235 on Thursday October 04, 2018 @03:49PM (#18143087)
You can be as sarcastic as you want, but these stories are absolutely indicative of a much larger problem. It might be beyond the capacity of one company to fix, but in the aggregate they represent a serious political and economic threat and need to be dealt with one way or another. Preferably by literally anyone other than Donald Trump.
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Re:The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Am... by lenkite on Friday October 05, 2018 @02:01AM (#18146015)
Speaking as someone who is _not_ a citizen of the USA and is well aware of his issues, he seems to be first US President who actually appears to have the guts to do something about it. I doubt an establishment politician would ever have imposed tariffs on 200 billion dollars of China imports.
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Re:The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Am... by PurpleBoxDragon on Monday October 08, 2018 @10:16AM (#18167613)
If he stuck to just China I would agree. But by trying to change up numerous different agreements, he lost the goodwill needed to have a collective crackdown on China. Even if he is the first to be willing to pick these sort of battles in a long while, he has a new issue of picking too many battles. Seems like a Goldilocks problem.
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Re:The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Am... by ComputerGuru on Friday October 05, 2018 @02:40AM (#18146164)
The tariffs aren’t the problem, it’s the stupidity of going it alone and alienating allies that could have turned the thumbscrews with you on China to get them to really capitulate.
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