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Chinese spy chips are found in hardware used by Apple, Amazon, Bloomberg says; Apple, AWS say no way
The chips, which Bloomberg said have been the subject of a top secret U.S. government investigation starting in 2015, were used for gathering intellectual property and trade secrets from American companies and may have been introduced by a Chinese server company called Super Micro that assembled machines used in the centers.
[...] China has long been suspected — but rarely directly implicated — in en masse spy campaigns based on hardware made there. The majority of electronic components used in U.S. technology are manufactured in China. Companies including component manufacturers Huawei and ZTE, as well as surveillance camera maker Hikvision, have all fallen under intense suspicion and scrutiny from the U.S. government in the past year.
I'd think that the big guys would be designing their own boards. Maybe we should only buy PCBs from South Korea.
Also at Bloomberg and The Guardian.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 04 2018, @06:38PM (2 children)
The Chinks at it again.
Why not do business instead with a friendlier commie govt? Like Vietnam? We're all friends now, right, united in our belief in a Higher Dollar?
We can hand them all our knowledge and build them up.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday October 04 2018, @08:14PM (1 child)
That's racist.
Also, you could build up Vietnam and it would never become the problem that China is given its current borders and population. But on the other hand China will just steal the trade secrets from Vietnam or wherever they are found.
The correct response is to make things in the U.S.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 04 2018, @09:40PM
I believe that is the entire purpose of this claim, but again that's just my claim.