hardware implants are why people do chip decapping and hardware assurance. this practice is more old than cybersecurity itself. even IF this story is false, the

hardware implants are why people do chip decapping and hardware assurance. this practice is more old than cybersecurity itself. even IF this story is false, the fact is that some actors implant chips into many many devices. these come from china, but ofcourse the contractors who make these chips aren't neccesarily only serving their own masters - that is an assumption. And lets not start about how hypocritical it is to put everything on china all the time while western governments just implement the same backdoors and data harvesting techniques in software. lawful intercept is a documented way to do it, but there's plenty undocumented. (as that once also was.) if you doubt this information, look on youtube for 'chip decapping defcon' and see how 2 british persons show how they do this kind of assurance work and show how people have already found these kind of implants many many many times before.!