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Finding an exploit created by state-level actor is not a massive L. They have shown in the past that they are able to hack air gaped systems, weaken commonly used security standards and implant vulnerabilities into commercial software. I don't think you will find a company that is immune to this. Other than that, did they really have so many security issues recently?
Ordering your hardware from China makes it a tad bit easier to shoehorn backdoors in it.
That's... basically all hardware these days...
Indeed 😬