The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip on Servers to Infiltrate U.S. Government, Military and Companies

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what was uncovered regarding deliberately low-quality Chinese-manufactured steel that was used to build U.S. military vessels

Whoa I totally missed this story. Yeah this tech sabotage seems very similar.

"In one case, the malicious chips were thin enough that they’d been embedded between the layers of fiberglass onto which the other components were attached"

Yeah I hadn't read the story. Wow this is crazy. It seems it's time for more trusted US tech right now.

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Yeah, maybe not exactly a national security issue (ISS excepted), but can someone buy Lenovo back, pretty please, so that we can all have decent tanks (ahem laptops) again ?