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Attilatheblond

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3. Back in the mid 90s, NPR did report on the US military contractors who outsourced much of the computer chips
Sat Mar 16, 2024, 02:50 PM
Mar 2024

needed for the guidance system of missiles the DOD ordered for our stockpile of weapons. The manufacture of these critical components for the missile guidance was outsourced to a company IN CHINA.

Allowing for the likelihood of backdoors into critical systems seem like a good way for some capitalists to make some extra coin. We know Musk is really a man without a country. It's damned foolish to trust him with anything that is sensitive.

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