100%. It’s why, with rare exceptions, do I even buy from online — certainly not Amazon or AliExpress. I’d need to find some of the prior examples where CCCP TAO-like (Tailored Access Operations) payloads were placed on Amazon to infect Americans, for example.

Bigger companies like Apple/Amazon/Google/whoever perform x-rays on hardware as it comes in from suppliers.

The CCCP are far more advanced than we are — our jerkoff admin can barely stop a spy balloon or “unknown” drones going after some of our most important and secure facilities.

From Snowden whistleblowing, example of TAO in progress: