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This morning in a lengthy cover story, Bloomberg Business Week outlined what it says

is perhaps the biggest hardware and supply chain hack in history.

According to extensive sourcing and reporting, agents from China's People's Liberation Army

inserted tiny chips into products produced by U-based motherboard giant Super Micro.

It would be useful for you to click over to the link to this story in the show notes to see

what we're talking about here.

When I say Tiny Chip, I'm talking tiny. So tiny as

to be undetectable in the maze of do dads on a motherboard. Pull out a penny and look at Abe Lincoln's ear.

The chips were about that size.

These chips were inserted onto motherboards that were then used to run servers.

And those servers were used at almost 30 U.S. companies like Amazon and Apple.

Again, the company that manufactured the motherboards was U.S. based Super Micro.

Quote, think of Super Micro as the Microsoft of the hardware world, a former U.S.

Intelligence official said in the piece.

Attacking Super Micro Motherboards is like attacking Windows.

It's like attacking the whole world, end quote.

And of course, super micro motherboards were manufactured in China, which is how these chips were

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