Chinese Hardware Espionage
Discussions center on suspicions of Chinese government or companies inserting backdoors and spy chips in hardware like servers and laptops for espionage, referencing incidents such as the Bloomberg Supermicro scandal and FBI reports on economic espionage.
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I thought China does this all the time.https://www.fbi.gov/news/speeches/responding-effectively-to-...
china seemingly managed it. why wouldn't the nsa have an easier time at it?
Maybe the chinese don't want to be hacked by the 3 and 4 letter agencies of the 5 eyes world :)
Since this seems like it's only targeting the Chinese market, it seems like there is a high possibility of a governmental hand in this (China spying on their own people, or some other government -- US, Russia, etc -- spying on China).
Wasn't it caught already sending data to China in a sneaky way? Why using it for anything?
your comment looks like an pro-china propaganda. In china the state has heavy control on all the companies. The hardware is manufactured in china. I don't think something like this is happen without the state's knowledge.
Perhaps backdooring by the Chinese government?
Remember this from bloomberg?https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-h...
Lenovo is a Chinese company. If you move to China and get backing from the Chinese government, then yes, you can hack into US computers and get away with it scot-free. (Alternatively, if you stay in the US and join the NSA, you can get away with hacking into Chinese computers scot-free.)
I think they're referring to potential backdoors installed by the US to spy on China in Microsoft software. (Shocker: the US engages in cyber espionage too).