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That feel when current year and Western Pacific is filled with Kuznetsov class, Tu-16, Tu-95 and all manner of flankers.
Seems to me they should just frame it as the Euro being over-valued which they can actually do something about.
But I guess that would require Europeans to admit they're backward and poor.
Clearly you need a bit more than just a semblance of knowledge to know backdoors are extremely easy to bake into chips and gain network access because of something called drivers.
Also Windows firewall? You expect Windows which doesn't even bother to pretend it's not recording your screen to protect against other backdoors, lol
And those are just simple backdoor, there are far more complex backdoors, like cyprtographic module RNG entropy attack, networking module attacks, PHY attacks, or just simply messing with your computation results.
It goes both ways: China can also backdoor basically everything with chips in it by replacing chips at production line, you can fit a networking IP die into just 1mm these days and you can build radiators into the chip using wire bonds which resonante with an enclosure. US might be projecting in saying China does that because there's no way to prove it, but China can very much do it and let's not pretend China does no spying.
So don't be naieve, obviously China's main interest is build domestic ecosystem and shut out Nvidia, but Nvidia backdoors are very much real
You are talking like Windows is the only OS and open source OS doesn't exist. Linux and derivatives do exist which are secure and completely open for inspection so that no software backdoor can exist. The OS acts as the central authority, controlling the CPU's privilege levels. Even drivers loaded from a chip must ask the OS for permission to access resources, like sending data packets. Its completely impossible for any backdoor piece of code to gain access to the network interface without OS permission.
Firewalls (both host and network-based) monitor all outbound traffic. A hardware backdoor trying to exfiltrate data would still need to use the Network Interface Card and transmit data, which network boundary firewalls and Intrusion Detection Systems are specifically designed to flag as unauthorized communication.
Finally, its too risky for a trillion dollar company to implement such a backdoor. The reputational damage will be too huge. We are talking the entire world and most of the top corps no longer trusting NVDIA products. Then there could be criminal charges and fines. NVDIA execs in China could be arrested for example. No company can justify doing these things. they would rather leak this to the outside world even if US govt forces them to do it.
There is tendency to come up with conspiracy theories against US where everything has a backdoor and CIA is all powerful entity that can spy on anything. When you think logically, you can see its all just BS.
