I thought it would be interesting to look up the testimony regarding the Lenovo spy chip reference in the Bloomberg Long Hack article:
>>>Q And these counterfeit parts were parts that the Marines
like you working on the network had installed because you
thought they were legitimate parts?
A Yes, sir.
Q Anything else going on during 2008 with other technology
that was found to be counterfeit being used by the military in
Iraq?
A The primary thing that was found was Lenovo laptops. IBM
Think Pads were outsourced to a company in China called Lenovo
to be built. A large amount of Lenovo laptops were sold to the
US military that had a chip encrypted on the motherboard that
would record all the data that was being inputted into that
laptop and send it back to China....
>>>Q And these counterfeit parts were parts that the Marines like you working on the network had installed because you thought they were legitimate parts? A Yes, sir. Q Anything else going on during 2008 with other technology that was found to be counterfeit being used by the military in Iraq? A The primary thing that was found was Lenovo laptops. IBM Think Pads were outsourced to a company in China called Lenovo to be built. A large amount of Lenovo laptops were sold to the US military that had a chip encrypted on the motherboard that would record all the data that was being inputted into that laptop and send it back to China....