> Why wouldn’t a company notice any of the outbound traffic using firewalls? If you deploy several thousand of those backdoor chips, you wouldn't set them up t

> Why wouldn’t a company notice any of the outbound traffic using firewalls? If you deploy several thousand of those backdoor chips, you wouldn't set them up to ping your C&C infrastructure all on its own. Rather, you'd use a magic string as a trigger to activate the backdoor in some few targets to reduce the chance of the outbound traffic being detected.