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See, the article showed that even largest companies are not completely immune to the problem. This was decade ago and payment card industry, not exactly nationa
by lmilcin 8y ago
See, the article showed that even largest companies are not completely immune to the problem. This was decade ago and payment card industry, not exactly national security matters.
- Symmetry 8y agoThe PLA can lean on factory managers very effectively but they're not going to be interested in small time stuff like credit card numbers. The sort of sophisticated criminal gang doing something like this will have fewer coercive tools at its disposal and I'd imagine would target lower level employees with bribes.
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- pjc50 8y agoI'm not sure; the DPRK are certainly known to make their espionage units self-funding through credit card fraud.
- ElBarto 8y agoThe problem highlighted in the article is very tricky because verifying a motherboard to that level of details is difficult. As I hinted in another comment I suspect that they had a suspicion and checked those motherboards very, very carefully.