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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)
submitted 8 months ago by boem to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

no, you're thinking about it wrong. The whole point of a doomsday machine is useless if it's countered by simply being known about.

China knowing how TSMC has their delete key working, shouldn't make a fucking difference, on whether or not it works. If it does, it's not a very good delete key, because china probably already knows how it works, as well as the US.

[–] Entropywins 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You need to watch Dr. Strangelove or: how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb by Stanley Kubrik friend.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

probably, i'm just repeating standard rules of security practice though. If it's only secure because someone doesn't know about it. It's not secure.

I highly doubt TSMC is doing anything less than the state of the art practices with regards to this problem.