by Karl Denninger
Market-Ticker.org
Just remember folks, the Chinese would never do that.
Target you for death, that is.
Just like they didn’t do this.
In 2010, the U.S. Department of Defense found thousands of its computer servers sending military network data to China—the result of code hidden in chips that handled the machines’ startup process.
In 2014, Intel Corp. discovered that an elite Chinese hacking group breached its network through a single server that downloaded malware from a supplier’s update site.
And in 2015, the Federal Bureau of Investigation warned multiple companies that Chinese operatives had concealed an extra chip loaded with backdoor code in one manufacturer’s servers.
I reported on this when it first broke, if you recall.
They have been at this for at least ten years, and probably longer.