This week I read an article from march 2025 about asian (read chinese) PCBs and why they are dangerous. The scary part was, that inside the layers of a PCB the manufacturer could hide parts like chips for espionage or fuses to short a circuit that are hard or impossible to detect:
In addition, specific manipulation scenarios are examined. The study demonstrates that it is technically possible to integrate additional components – such as spy chips – into the inner layers of multilayer PCBs. These often remain undetected even during X-ray examinations. Weaknesses in design, such as in the layout of capacities, can also be exploited to enable side-channel attacks. These are attacks that do not directly target algorithms or data, but exploit physical or logical side effects of a system. Attackers observe and analyse these side effects to extract protected information or algorithms.
Here is the article, but it's in German: https://www.all-electronics.de/elektronik-fertigung/warum-asiatische-leiterplatten-so-guenstig-und-gefaehrlich-sind/725088
There have also been cases where communication equipment which was not part of the original design was found in Chinese solar power inverters: https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/ghost-machine-rogue-communication-devices-found-chinese-inverters-2025-05-14/
With such manipulated inverters I guess it could be possible to power down a good chunk of pv generators to destabilize the power grid. This could come in handy for China if they decide to take Taiwan (but this is just a very wild speculation from my part!).
This rarely seems to be an issue yet.
The cheapest bid should be automatically deleted.
I could smell it.
"The government is reopened. Everything we democrats want is from now on in effect. If the republicans have a problem with that, they can shut down the government. You're welcome!"
Modern doors are safe. It's the windows you should worry about.
Permanent no-time-change time
Yeah, so? It's this or no image!
Had no time, so I used AI. Sorry for that!
Wait, Shazam didn't work?
Same same but different. My backup server pulls my files with rsync.
Gunster.
I thought piss and milk.
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It was always meant like: "If I fuck up with this Brexit, you guys can pay the price! I will live comfortably somewhere else!"
"The godfathers of American glory" signed a Mexican driver.
I'm happy for Checo and Bottas! When Checo is getting points, that will be so much fun! Mind bending cognitive dissonance on the American side!
Did Biden have bruises from handshaking?
My colleagues iPhone says "I've got the power!" and I'm a little pissed that he still hasn't managed to play the music snippet I provided him.