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Just Hatched
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Not saying they have backdoors. But it's not impossible to backdoor if they want to.
Big Hyperscalers don't buy individual PCIe cards. They buy pre-built servers with GPUs. In that case backdooring is extremely easy. For example all the existing AMD and Intel processors already have a hidden computer, which is effectively a backdoor. It's a complete subsystem with a CPU core, it's own RAM and it's own operating system (Minix in the case of Intel). They operate at a ring beyond the reach of the host OS kernel, has the ability to read all the data that goes through the CPU, has the ability to reach internet and phone home without the knowledge of the host OS.
Even in the case of discrete cards it's not impossible to do nefarious things. It connects to a PCIe port so it could in theory emulate almost any kind of peripheral including input devices and network interfaces.

While the idea of a "backdoor" is plausible, the idea is a bit far fetched because phone home attempts would be pretty easily detected by firewalls that these servers typically run behind. And frankly, any big hyperscaler with a budget to buy these servers should have a competent enough IT department to not put these servers on a network with access to the open internet.


This is like 90's 1337 shit.

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Also, pagers shouldn't explode, right?
can we please refrain from straw man and false equivalence type arguments?
 

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I cannot read Japanese. All I know is 之 = の and that is it.

Just from that, I can tell this article was about something I read before this day, that this incident, the PLAAF locked onto their aircraft at 52 km at first, then later locked on at 148 km on a second time.
 
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It feels like there is a shift in narrative. They use to complain that Chinese products being “cheap” because of inexpensive labor and non-existent slave labor. Now they are whining about the Yuan is being undervalued despite the fact the price of the Yuan has mostly been stable against the Euro/Dollar for the last decade. Saw people whining about this exact thing on Reddit. They are probably dreaming of Plaza Accord 2.0 where they can create a massive bubble and destroy China economy.

Yeah, I noticed it too.

My reasoning for this, is different, that I believe the new visa travel policies implemented by the PRC allowing visa free travel into China, has been an information explosion.

During the pandemic, all the foreigners left China, there were none left. Then a few trickled in.

Then there was a surge of travel into China (within this year) with the new visa policies making it hassle free to come to China for a lot of countries citizens.

My feelings about it, dealing with white people, is that most of them are not rabid ideologues. So when they get new information, they are welcoming towards it.

They go to China, expecting to find the enemy, but they find that no one really cares inside China about that too much, then they themselves are having too much fun inside to care that China is suppose to be the enemy.

The narrative dissolve like sugar in water.

The only people who will maintain the anti-China narrative and that China is not doing well is the Indians. They cannot keep a lid on inside their own country if they allow the truth.

Everyone else, they have a clear picture now. The narrative is forced to change, otherwise they will look like fools.

Poor comrade Chang. Being on Faux News was not a move up. It was really just exile.

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Temstar

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Usually, counter-intelligence operations are top secret just like intelligence missions. Imagine how much of a joke China thinks the Dutch and Taiwanese are by releasing this LOL
We're discussing it further in this thread:
Not only were their movements and photos released, we even have things like this:

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Colonel David Yu's extra baggage fee to China Airlines, due to his excessive shopping in Amsterdam during his mission.
Perhaps out of those six members of ROC Military Intelligence Bureau there were at least one 峨眉峰.
 
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