The other side of outsourcing

Sean Linnane aka Stormbringer reports:

Last year, the U.S. Navy bought 59,000 microchips for use in everything from missiles to transponders and all of them turned out to be counterfeits from China.

Wired reports the chips weren't only low-quality fakes, they had been made with a "back-door" and could have been remotely shut down at any time.

And how about the regular, quite mundane stuff in your house, like your phones, your TV set, your computers?

What if...