boem@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoSemiconductor manufacturers in Taiwan can remotely disable their chip-making machines in the event of a Chinese invasion.www.bloomberg.comexternal-linkmessage-square39fedilinkarrow-up112arrow-down10cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up112arrow-down1external-linkSemiconductor manufacturers in Taiwan can remotely disable their chip-making machines in the event of a Chinese invasion.www.bloomberg.comboem@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square39fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareCarrolade@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoDepends how its set up. So long as it’s fully independent and disconnected from existing digital infrastructure it should be safer. It could be as simple as explosives hard-wired with a buried line running up into some bunker up in the mountains.
minus-squareTetsuo@jlai.lulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoBy remotely I don’t think they meant a long RJ45 cable connected to nothing. So this doesn’t look like a setup that can be fully secure. Could even be completely fake and just to dissuade China from invading.
minus-squareAgent641@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoA guy with an RC car remote, peering across the Taiwan Strait with benoculars
Depends how its set up. So long as it’s fully independent and disconnected from existing digital infrastructure it should be safer. It could be as simple as explosives hard-wired with a buried line running up into some bunker up in the mountains.
By remotely I don’t think they meant a long RJ45 cable connected to nothing.
So this doesn’t look like a setup that can be fully secure.
Could even be completely fake and just to dissuade China from invading.
A guy with an RC car remote, peering across the Taiwan Strait with benoculars