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The "invisible supply chain attack by intelligence agencies" angle is a plausible vector, but doing so pervasively and repeatedly in a democracy with open recor
by ethbr0 4y ago
The "invisible supply chain attack by intelligence agencies" angle is a plausible vector, but doing so pervasively and repeatedly in a democracy with open records is unlikely.
Room 641A was leaked in 3 years. And that was one room with one domestic telecom provider. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
To keep a secret that spans supply chains, across multiple companies, many with substantial international ownership and/or interests? Not gonna happen.
- salawat 4y agoHow many common people really understand room 641A though? There's the case to be made that the level of signal propagation and uptake is still "low enough" where even though it is public, it is still effectively secret. From a CAP theoretic point of view, the info is Available, but there is still a hefty Partition in that there is a significant degree of the population that isn't Consistent on this fact.
- JohnFen 4y agoMy experience is that a large percentage of ordinary people have heard about 641A, but the overwhelming majority of them think it's just another crazy conspiracy theory.