HELLFIRE Usual preface, sharing strictly and solely from a security POV to the exclusion of everything else : https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/23/china_backdoor_alerts/ … The post explains that some developers and manufacturers install backdoors as innocent tools to allow maintenance, but that criminals later use them for nefarious purposes; the Ministry is less kind about supply chain attacks on software, which it says criminals carry out specifically to implement backdoors. … Which is ironic given that China routinely watches everything its citizens do online. … Regards