Once upon a time, a university friend of mine spent his summers working for the Australian public service. His response to the rumours about Eschalon, before t

Once upon a time, a university friend of mine spent his summers working for the Australian public service. His response to the rumours about Eschalon, before the Australian spooks confirmed them [1], was: "They're capable of doing that. So of course they're bloody doing it." That stayed with me. Maybe it doesn't matter if these chips were implanted in the particular boards that they're alleged to have been in. No one is suggesting that this would be technically infeasible, so you can bet the PLA has planted them somewhere. I would, if I was defending China against Trump. [1] That drunken Christmas party excepted.