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Re:Chip wars: China, America and silicon supremacy by thinkling on Friday November 30, 2018 @05:37PM (#18573386)
I've long thought that if I were the Chinese strategists, I'd be putting backdoors into infrastructure products shipped to the US like cable modems and routers. The moment conflict breaks out, China would brick a large percentage of the US internet. Good luck downloading clean firmware during that shitshow.
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Re:Chip wars: China, America and silicon supremacy by nickpsecurity on Friday November 30, 2018 @06:45PM (#18573857)
The DOD said in the past a lot of fake chips from China were getting into American systems. It's an inspiration for things like Trusted Foundry Program.
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