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Comment by nvahalik | Hacker News Reader

Regardless about how you feel about the hack, outsourcing the vast majority of our technology to another country just doesn't seem like the smartest idea. Why would we put our most trusted technology into someone else's hands—just because it's going to save a few bucks? Wouldn't it be worth it to just do these things ourselves?

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You should talk about "our technology" only if you are a big stock owner or, maybe, a naive employee. They are not called "global corporations" because of their patriotism.

It's not called "global capital" because it cares where to reproduce.

This is the system working as intended.

Its not just 'a few bucks', it is a considerable amount of money in the long term.

You sure that’s adequate cost evaluation if the bloomberg accusations are true?

I'm sure that companies will start to re-shore production on to friendlier countries or at least require sub-contracting restrictions. From the article it sounds like a sub-sub-sub-contractor (SuperMicro->Main Chinese Contractor->Compromised Chinese Contractor) was the weak link.

The boat has been sailed long time ago. First it was the Japanese, then the Taiwanese and Koreans. In the past decade it was the Chinese.

Who's next, Vietnamese?

Did you see the pattern here?

The difference there is that Korea and Japan are treaty allies with the US. Taiwan is not a treaty ally but has a very close relationship with the US.

From what I know, Supermicro is a Taiwan background company, with manufacturing based in Taiwan.

There are zero Supermicro factories in Mainland China AFAIK.

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