boem to TechnologyEnglish · 10 months agoSemiconductor manufacturers in Taiwan can remotely disable their chip-making machines in the event of a Chinese invasion.www.bloomberg.comexternal-linkmessage-square142fedilinkarrow-up1504arrow-down19cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
arrow-up1495arrow-down1external-linkSemiconductor manufacturers in Taiwan can remotely disable their chip-making machines in the event of a Chinese invasion.www.bloomberg.comboem to TechnologyEnglish · 10 months agomessage-square142fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
minus-squareextantlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months agoProbably wipe the firmware of the machines so they can’t be used. (Fun fact: FIRMware is the in-between of HARDware and SOFTware.)
minus-squareKillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·10 months agomoderately chubbed ware
minus-squareBig_Boss_77@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·10 months agoAs someone who spends a lot of their job testing and implementing firmware upgrades… I will do my utmost to slip this into at least one meeting.
minus-squareKillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·10 months agothank god, my stupid internet comments are finally going somewhere important.
Probably wipe the firmware of the machines so they can’t be used.
(Fun fact: FIRMware is the in-between of HARDware and SOFTware.)
moderately chubbed ware
As someone who spends a lot of their job testing and implementing firmware upgrades… I will do my utmost to slip this into at least one meeting.
thank god, my stupid internet comments are finally going somewhere important.