My theory, even if Amazon knows about such an attempt, calling out China may jeopardize an entire market for them financially.
On Thu, Oct 4, 2018, 13:30 Dick Steffens <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/04/2018 12:51 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > > On Thu, 4 Oct 2018, Dick Steffens wrote: > > > >> The story about Elemental's computers having a spy chip on their > >> motherboards raise the question, how can we know if our computers are > >> compromised? > > > > Dick, > > > > We probably cannot. But, motherboards by Asus, MSI, and similar > > companies > > destined for the consumer market are most likely unaffected. > > We're probably too large a collection of small targets. > > > That Amazon so strongly denies that it actually found the chips > > makes me > > more concerned than does the broader implications. > > Kind of fits in with the current round of denials coming out of D.C. > > -- > Regards, > > Dick Steffens > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
