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Do you have any evidence for this claim?

It's generally hard to come by, leaving lots of room for assumptions. There was evidence of NSA tampering with ordered hardware in transit in the Snowden files, next to indications / speculations around certain cisco routers and even more about Intels Management Engine. But despite the last two being probable candidates I can't recall hard evidence for them.

Targeted interdiction is a far cry from what the parent comment alleges. Targeting shipments to backdoor or bug an item quite obviously happens everywhere in the world and has since the dawn of time.

The Snowden files said nothing about Intel’s ME. That isn’t a backdoor either. It’s a great place to put one, but there are lots of great places to put backdoors, and that doesn’t mean that’s what the manufacturer is doing.

Yes. The recent Huawei article above.

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