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Semiconductor manufacturers in Taiwan can remotely disable their chip-making machines in the event of a Chinese invasion. (www.bloomberg.com)

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[–] jet@hackertalks.com 81 points 6 months ago (20 children)

The flip side of this is that hackers can brick the same machines.....

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 5 points 6 months ago

They'd have everything to lose. Everyone wants those machines. Disabling or destroying those machines is like slashing the only nice life raft on the open ocean. Sure, there are others, but they have cracked rubber and don't seem as firm. Bleeding edge fabs are the oil of the 21st century.

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