The Navy Bought Fake Chinese Microchips That Could Have Disarmed U.S. Missiles
Do not think for one minute that the Chinese just want to rock their economy. The Chinese still think they ought to be ruling the world, not just the pisspot they currently think they control.
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency (IARPA) is now looking for ways to check the chips to make sure they haven't been hacked in the production process.
Simple! STOP BUYING THEM FROM CHINA. Well, not that simple. But I'm not sure why, say, Intel couldn't have a special, dedicated defense fab and make all this stuff for them instead of them haring out to Asia just because it's cheap.
Would we have bought critical defense hardware from Russia in the middle of the Cold War?
I think not. (At least, I sure as hell hope not!)
Now there is some pullback on this -- apparently the Wired article did not say that the chips HAD backdoors, only that they COULD HAVE HAD backdoors.
Even so...why are we buying mission-critical shit from the Chinese, who are our #1 enemies at the moment?
"...a special, dedicated defense fab..."
You can't economically build fab plants in the U.S. nowadays.
"Environmental" regs, y'know.
Grouch, it's the gummint. Who says they do anything "economically"? I'd fully expect it to cost 10 or more times what building one in Singapore or Malaysia would.
(BTW your comment ended up moderated because of the link. I'm going to have to look into why it mods comments with a single link, I know I have it set to 2 or more.)