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Not only that, but also when thinking about the process of discovering an issue this big, I doubt a single engineer or team would have identified it on their own. Designing servers is a big undertaking and this part would only be identified as malicious in a couple of ways.

If some engineer finds a part on the board that is not in the BOM, I doubt their first thought would be to report it to the FBI. There would likely be some long email thread bouncing around multiple teams trying to determine if some design change was missed.