The technology that facilitates your daily life, from the smartphone in your hand to the car in your garage, may simultaneously be detrimental to you. Once the stuff of spy thrillers, consumer electronics can today be used as tools of control, tracking, or even warfare if they are manufactured in adversarial countries or linked to opaque systems.
Mandatory usage and dependence on technology in all facets of our lives has led to risks and vulnerabilities that are no longer hypothetical. In addition to being found in your appliances, phone, internet, electricity, and other utility services, connected technology is also integrated in your firmware, transmitted through your cloud services, and magnified over your social media feeds.
China’s dominance in electronics manufacturing, which gives it enormous influence over the global tech supply chain, is a major cause for concern. Malware has been found pre-installed on electronic equipment exported from Chinese manufacturing. These flaws are frequently built into the hardware and cannot be fixed with a simple update.
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