Remember back in October there was a story that came out about Chinese placing a tiny modem on chips as a way for Chinese (and probably Clowns) to get access to DoD routers? Here's one of the links:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-how-china-used-a-tiny-chip-to-infiltrate-america-s-top-companies
Yesterday I watched a crappy mini-series called The Lone Gunman that in the first 5 minutes of the pilot used that same concept. A tiny modem on a chip to be sold to computer makers that assemble serious computers and modems. The kicker is that the series was put out in 2001. Can't help but wonder if the writers had some advance notice the Chinese were making something like that, or, if the plot gave someone in China the idea (or gave Clowns the idea).
Just interesting.