Immense amount of data? This is not about transmitting 'immense amount of data' but about allowing
ACCESS to the computer at the base hardware level.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/feat...ny-chip-to-infiltrate-america-s-top-companies
Here is a clue for the clueless...Which pretty much means most in this thread...
Take this statement:
We are having a great time in Disneyland
In cryptology, particularly in linguistics, %90 of what is collected or deciphered are considered by linguists to be 'filler' material. Journalists uses the same 'filler' material method in writing their reports.
So for the statement above, only two words are important: 'We' and 'Disneyland'.
Do I care if you and your family/friends are having a 'great time'? No, I do not. What is important is that you are not home but far away and by being far away, it means your home is available for access for at least one week. So even if all I managed to decipher/decrypted are two words, the implications from them are enormous. The remaining words 'are having a great time' are incidental 'filler' material that are useful but
NOT NEEDED. You having a 'great time' could be away from home for more than one week, which is even better for me, but already I am %99.999 confident that I would have at least one week to access your house, or at least attempt to access you house.
So minus %90 that are 'filler' material, what 'immense' amount of data are we talking about? In a statement that contains 8 words, only two are revealing. Hardly 'immense'. It does not matter if this module can send only one word per second because in two seconds I am %99.999 confident that you are at least one week away from home.
Have no doubt that behind the official denials, these US companies and the DoD are working to determine its credibility, and if it turned out to be true, China's semicon industry will begins to see losses from withdrawals by foreign companies no longer willing to extend the already dubious trust they extended to China.
This is far worse -- if proven true.
Do you really believe the Chinese government cares about how much shopping you do or how much adult movies you watch? That is essentially what FB, Google, or MS does, and they sell your privacy data to make money from adverts.
If this allegation about China is proven true, it means China is looking for more than just how much dirty movies you watch or how much money you spent on ebay. China want political and technical secrets. How much you -- an engineer working on a new jet engine -- spends on ebay is irrelevant, but how many hours you work on designing the fuel control module is very relevant. Do you understand now?
This is not about complaining but about exposure.