Pylimitics

It seems the Federal Communication Commission, or at least the dimwit sycophant installed as the director, has decided that there’s such a thing as “foreign surveillance chips,” and they’re very, very bad. So bad they’re banned!

It doesn’t make much sense to just ban a microchip, so they’ve banned the sale of “two gadgets” that contain these chips. More specifically, the HiVision Hi3516CV610 UHD Smart Vision SoC, which I guess is the only “foreign surveillance chip”. So at least for now, we’re much safer because we are not allowed to buy those two devices containing the HiVision Hi3516CV610 UHD Smart Vision SoC, which are…oh wait, they haven’t even said what devices are banned.

You just can’t make this stuff up.

They seem to have neglected to ban the data sheet for the “foreign surveillance chip,” so here it is.