[kipchak]

>Even if the government finds one, they won't say it out loud. Nobody would hold them accountable. You cannot just incite WW3.

Isn't this arguably what happened with the SuperMicro hack and the subsequent denials?

[freeflight]

Do you mean the story about tiny super spy chips, so advanced that not even the US could manufacture them, allegedly being planted on thousands of US server boards?

Remind me: How many of these chips were actually found and presented as evidence? Not a single one, yet to this day this story remains alive and repeated...