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The Silicon Trojan

When a shipment of 10,000 microcontrollers arrived for our drone guidance project, I pulled one for a routine stress test. The results were impossible: the chip ran 20% faster than the spec sheet allowed. I realized too late that these weren't counterfeits—they were advanced hardware trojans designe...

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