Exactly. That's a fantastic tactic. Give out a thousand fans and have only 9 or 10 of them be compromised. A safe fan gets torn down by security researchers and declared vanilla, and those 9 or 10 targets believe their fans are safe to use.
Or even just fake the analysis outright. North Korea having someone at Cambridge, or at least being able to feed them a benign variant via an unnamed journalist, is not out of the question.
We can probably rule this out since the paper doesn’t conclude that North Korea is #1 and Bless Dear Leader
The workers' effort of dismantling the fan promoted the mass line consciousness and building of a vigorous cadre feeling in the whole army.
Yes. This is obvious but also counterintuitive. People forget that it's a long game and that malware (such as Stuxnet) is patient and penetrates gradually.