Saturday, April 6, 2024

Supply Chain Exploits


Supply Chain Exploits


We are not connecting enough dots it seems, in this fog of war.  I refer of course to the Info War, the Total War, the Cognitive War.  Unrestricted Warfarethe Chinese call it, or as it has been termed more frequently in the West, Fifth Generation Warfare.  Because unless we are suffering from amnesia, ships have been a target vector since at least 2017.  Sure, the allision of the MV Dali could have just been bad luck or negligence, because that is the official narrative.  It’s just so darned understandable after all.

In the last decade we have seen a cascade of suspicious incidents involving cargo vessels and/or military vessels, lest we forget.  You may recall that the rise of Trump caused the Deep State to throw a hissy fit.  For those still working out the suspicious nature of reality at large, let me give a refresh of what was happening at sea, starting with the US Navy:



...Those US Navy incidents were clumped together so tightly it prompted a two-week operational pause worldwide, for safety checks.  The investigative findings talk about things like crew fatigue and operational tempo.  But they also indicate crew confusion, spatial awareness issues, and specifically call out things like touch screens.

The conning officer of the Helge Ingstad insisted there was a discrepancy with the AIS (Automatic Identification System) in determining which markers were moving and which were stationary. After the John McCain, the Navy began a plan to re-introduce physical controls onto the Arleigh-Burkes, which brings me to the focus of this essay.

A well-known investigative report from October 2018 detailed how secret components have been clandestinely installed on circuit boards, at the supplier level in China, for many years.  Call it a Hardware Hack — think of the classical spy-cam-in-a-Xerox-machine, only much more insidious.  The report focused on the company Super Micro, but the implication was it happens all over the industry: a CCP employee at a supplier inserts an innocuous-looking component into the design layout of a complex printed circuit board.  It can be tiny, the proverbial grain of rice, even hidden between the layers of the PCB itself.  Its purpose has nothing to do with overall function, so the board passes all of its tests during design review and manufacturing QC, and goes on up the chain to get approved and assembled into high-end servers, control equipment, and yes military equipment.

Companies like Apple and Amazon, named in the report, quickly issued denials to distance themselves from being victims of these hardware hacks.  But the hacker community is unequivocal that the gist of the report is correct; even if it was from Bloomberg.  Most curiously, the phenomenon known as Q had warned about this very thing as it relates to Navy Ships, in April of 2018.  Six months before the article.  Maybe that was seeded as part of the PsyopTM?  All of those incidents have official explanations, which the military is very good at producing.  What safety checks do you suppose the Navy was making during its two week pause?

The implications of the report were staggering, especially considering a suspicious number of military and civilian aircraft incidents.  You mean that Boeing I’ve been flying on?  Probably.  But did US Military equipment really have Chinese circuit boards?  Yes.  Did Navy ships really have inferior Chinese steel?  Yes.  A lot of revelations hit the fan during Trump’s first term.  Were the Bidens sold out to China and Ukraine?  Yes.  What was going on with Uranium One?


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