China
the People’s Liberation Army snuck rice grain-sized microchips onto these key IT infrastructure components during the manufacturing process, and the spies thereby gained, effectively, god-like powers over the machines.
Did China subvert a global technology supply chain?
Did it imperil international relations?
is the story off the mark?
Fortune on Bloomberg BusinessWeek’s China chip hack story
Dragonfly
Google should immediately end development of the ‘Dragonfly’ app that will strengthen Communist Party censorship and compromise the privacy of Chinese customers.
US Vice President Mike Pence
Building 8
Facebook is listening to you 24/7/365
Literally
[FB algorithm]
Are they tecording/safe housing?
Meta data collection?
Building 8
DARPA
[CHINA-CHINA-CHINA]
Q
FVEY
The Five Eyes, FVEY, intelligence alliance. Australia, Canada, New Zealand, UK, USA, parties UKUSA Agreement, a treaty for cooperation in signals intelligence.
Wikipedia
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