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by heartbreak 2819 days ago
In the other threads it has been mentioned that this hypothetical attack could run similarly to the US/Xerox op in the Cold War. The Xerox machines recorded data which was collected by a Xerox technician during regular maintenance. A board with a trojan chip on it could potentially record data to be collected during an RMA. No need for network transmission.
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Heck, you can find millions of pages of highly confidential documentation in any Xerox copier junkyard--it's all standardly copied to their internal disks, which are never cleaned on junking.

This caused a small stink a while back but I doubt if anything's changed.