Modern supply chains --- Let's take cars as an example. They are built with thousands of third party components (from wheels, tires, motor parts, to chips and infotainment devices) coming from different continents. Airplanes have millions of components. This makes the scanning and security check of all such components (especially the electronic components and integrated computers) impossible. Car producers usually trust their supplier/s. Most of the stuff today comes from China...If China wants to be step forward in geopolitics and future cyberwars with "competitor" countries, it can easily "supply" the world with malware infected components for whatever product - (smartphone, PC, motherboards, external storage drives, server machines etc.) and thus, if needed, to stall the entire targeted economy/industry or other victim with ease....

Source author: Vladimir Nikolov vladimir984@yahoo.com