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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dave70968" data-source="post: 3161007" data-attributes="member: 13624">From the article (emphasis added):Over the decades, the security of the supply chain became an article of faith despite repeated warnings by Western officials. A belief formed that China was unlikely to jeopardize its position as workshop to the world by letting its spies meddle in its factories. That left the decision about where to build commercial systems resting largely on where capacity was greatest and cheapest. “You end up with a classic Satan’s bargain,” one former U.S. official says. “You can have less supply than you want and guarantee it’s secure, or you can have the supply you need, but there will be risk. Every organization has accepted the second proposition.”So...yes, people suspected.  Senior management just decided the profits were worth the risk.Now, it's time for the market to speak to such management.  Or not, depending upon its priorities.(Also, anybody who thinks other intelligence agencies, including the NSA, aren't doing similar things is an idiot.  But that's another thread, another time, unlikely to make mainstream US press.)</blockquote>