CV and mad panic behaviour

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Apparently they're already embedded within the Hardware, hence Hauwei excluded from infrastructure contracts

Lay people thinking about embedded chips believe they are devices you can see with your eye if you open up a gadget for inspection. But the current surveillance chips can be so small they are smaller than the fullstop at the end of this sentence. They can be soldered into a circuit and not even an expert will find them, or even worse still, most circuit boards are multi-layered laminate structures and the spy chips can be put in-between the circuit board layers sandwiched between two layers of copper.

The next generation of devices are going to be even more insidious, they can be printed with conductive polymers in what looks to everyone like normal everyday colour ink, a logo or a picture can effectively become a surveillance device. You can send a flyer to a target and bug their office, home, etc., etc., sending hundreds or thousands of them because they cost 1c a piece to make, the same cost as printing a coloured A4 page!

But perhaps if you want to discuss this stuff it needs a new thread.