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But it is still possible that DHS is just not aware of CIA/NSA discoveries and activities. There were suspicious events that signal that something is up, like
by coolspot 8y ago
But it is still possible that DHS is just not aware of CIA/NSA discoveries and activities.
There were suspicious events that signal that something is up, like when Apple completely switched from Supermicro to other vendors or when they started to develop processes to prevent supply chain hardware attack around time when CIA supposedly found the bug (2015-2016).
iPhone is also switched from Qualcomm modem to US designed and fabricated by Intel.
- paranoidrobot 8y agoSwitching from one vendor to another could come from any number of reasons. Also, their work on supply-chain security is also at the same time that Apple was more publicly promoting the security of their own hardware. So those two things could be entirely co-incidental. That said, short of a release of internal documents, I don't think anyone outside has a decent idea of what's going on.
- kccqzy 8y ago> iPhone is [sic] also switched from Qualcomm modem to US designed and fabricated by Intel. Qualcomm is based in San Diego, CA.
- coolspot 8y agoSupermicro is based in San Jose, CA . Qualcomm is fabless company, manufacturing chips among others in Taiwan.
- praneshp 8y agoQualcomm is also American