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by rsync 3858 days ago
"So Broadcom may not sell you their chip, but the lady on the first floor of SEG building in Shenzhen just might."

And she will also happily affix a holographic "genuine" sticker to the part and package it in "original" "tamper proof" packaging. Just like brand new!

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I've seen the stickers today. You can get quite a lot of them for less than a dollar :).
or you get the broadcom+ chip. which kindly breaches your entire network and sends the content of everything it finds to a Chinese ip address...

don't have any data on that either. but I'm guessing it is more likely than getting what you ordered.