Yes, I kinda agree. I remember hearing a conversation with one of the Start9 guys that touched on this issue. His view was, I think, that generally software can be, and is, regularly scrutinised but hardware is often taken for granted as being not something that is looked at in that way. I have this scenario in my mind whereby hardware, that manufacturers/assemblers have caught wind is popular with bitcoiners for running nodes, gets inserted with some hardware component that in some way provides a malicious "in" to the setup.

A hardware backdoor.

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