Bogus story: no Chinese backdoor in military chipToday's big news is that researchers have found proof of Chinese manufacturers putting backdoors in American chips that the military uses. This is false. While they did find a backdoor in a popular FPGA chip, there is no evidence the Chinese put it there, or even that it was intentionally malicious. Backdoors are common, but rarely malicious Backdoors are a common problem in software. About 20% of
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