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> Except the irony is it's baked into their systems as well, so you distribute your own national security threat...

From the article posted by OP

>sets the 'High Assurance Program' bit, an ME 'kill switch' that the US government reportedly[11] had incorporated for PCs used in sensitive applications[12][13];

[11] links to a dead website, but it makes you understand the US called dibs on disabling it



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