[Instead, during an interview by CBS correspondent John Miller with NSA officials, we learned of a nefarious plot worthy of the best Cold War era spy novels. NSA brass spoke of a Chinese "BIOS Plot", designed to "brick" all computers and crash the global economy. The supposed evil plan was foiled by the NSA, with the help of a few good computer companies.]
Derision best expressed in a comment: [Second, the US economy is too vast, diversified, and chaotic to have a single point of cyber-failure. Third, China’s economy is so tied to the US’s that Beijing would ultimately damage itself by mass-bricking US computers.]
http://blogs.computerworld.com/governmentindustries/23289/nsa-flashes-bios-60-minutes-itbwcw?source=CTWNLE_nlt_dailyam_2013-12-17
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