Some interesting points in these articles re it's improbability vs. probability:
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/1..._spy_chip_sec/
"As far as El Reg is concerned, while Bloomberg is generally a gold standard in journalism,
there are numerous problems with the original piece. For one thing, it would be near impossible to exfiltrate data from a bugged machine in a data center as Apple and Amazon, at least, have sophisticated monitoring tools that should catch unexpected network traffic. Similarly, they should be able to detect unauthorized changes to operating systems and applications, caused by the alleged spy chips injecting backdoor code into the software stack during boot.
They also inspect hardware before it is put into production: as well as visual inspections, it is possible to scan a motherboard for electromagnetic emissions and identify anything unexpected, such as a tiny chip smuggled onto or inside a PCB – there's even a patent on this kind of technology."
More on why the story is being deemed implausible:
https://www.servethehome.com/investi...micro-stories/
Creating fairness in trade for Americans is something we've needed to do for a long time, but this may indeed be a story to mask what the real prob with Huaweii is, IDK.
The word 'Huaweii' caught my eye because back in 2012 they were accused of killing an American Engineer, I vaguely remember the story and when you see the scene of the 'suicide' and hear the evidence, and you know that he was anxious and increasingly worried, voicing being worried about being killed, according to family and friends--- then it looks less like a suicide than it might otherwise.
He was said to have committed suicide by hanging himself from a set of holes he drilled in the bathroom wall, putting a pulley in them--yet no holes were in the wall when the family went to look.
He was packing his bags to leave Singapore frantically but never got out--he told his GF he had to leave and would tell her everything when he saw her again (which of course he didn't).
I googled it and here's the story, his name was Shane Todd:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Shane_Todd
"Dr. Shane Todd was an American engineer who died under disputed circumstances in Singapore in June 2012. Local authorities said Dr. Todd had committed suicide, though his family insists that he was murdered,[2] possibly in connection with the work he had been doing at the Institute for Micro Electronics ("IME"), part of the Singaporean government-run Agency for Science, Technology and Research ("A*STAR") involving a gallium nitride-based semiconductor amplifying device purportedly for the Chinese telecom company Huawei.[3][4]
Dr. Todd's death was the subject of a single major investigative report in February 2013 by the Financial Times newspaper.[3] The article carried the Todd family's claim that Singapore police had not properly investigated Dr. Todd's death, and also contained their allegations that the IME was collaborating on a project with potential military implication with Huawei, a major Chinese electronics and telecommunications company. Both Huawei and A*STAR's IME institute subsequently denied that their work had progressed beyond the discussion stage.[5] Ex-colleagues of Dr. Todd also testified that there had been no such collaborations. [6][7] The police also defended their role in the investigation.[8][9]"