China Used Tiny Chip in Hack - Vad säger ni?

Vad säger ni om nyheten om att flera tillverkare installerat "chip" i diverse kinesiska produkter för att spionera på amerikanska
bolag/myndigheter? Pratar de inte om "spyware" när man tex köper ny pc? De pekar ut både Lenovo och SUN. Tillverkare som AMD är också ner kraftigt på börsen.. Vad säger ni rent tekniskt?

China Used Tiny Chip in Hack That Infiltrated U.S. Companies
The attack by Chinese spies reached almost 30 U.S. companies, including
Amazon and Apple, by compromising America’s technology supply chain,
according to extensive interviews with government and corporate sources.
By Jordan Robertson and Michael Riley

(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- In 2015, Amazon.com Inc. began quietly
evaluating a startup called Elemental Technologies, a potential acquisition to
help with a major expansion of its streaming video service, known today as
Amazon Prime Video. Based in Portland, Ore., Elemental made software for
compressing massive video files and formatting them for different devices. Its
technology had helped stream the Olympic Games online, communicate with the
International Space Station, and funnel drone footage to the Central
Intelligence Agency. Elemental’s national security contracts weren’t the main
reason for the proposed acquisition, but they fit nicely with Amazon’s
government businesses, such as the highly secure cloud that Amazon Web
Services (AWS) was building for the CIA.

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Amazon Prime Video. Based in Portland, Ore., Elemental made software for
compressing massive video files and formatting them for different devices. Its
technology had helped stream the Olympic Games online, communicate with the
International Space Station, and funnel drone footage to the Central
Intelligence Agency. Elemental’s national security contracts weren’t the main
reason for the proposed acquisition, but they fit nicely with Amazon’s
government businesses, such as the highly secure cloud that Amazon Web
Services (AWS) was building for the CIA.

To help with due diligence, AWS, which was overseeing the prospective
acquisition, hired a third-party company to scrutinize Elemental’s security,
according to one person familiar with the process. The first pass uncovered
troubling issues, prompting AWS to take a closer look at Elemental’s main
product: the expensive servers that customers installed in their networks to
handle the video compression. These servers were assembled for Elemental by
Super Micro Computer Inc., a San Jose-based company (commonly known as
Supermicro) that’s also one of the world’s biggest suppliers of server
motherboards, the fiberglass-mounted clusters of chips and capacitors that act
as the neurons of data centers large and small. In late spring of 2015,
Elemental’s staff boxed up several servers and sent them to Ontario, Canada,
for the third-party security company to test, the person says.