Oh joy. I assume that mainland Chinese industrial espionage made those firms a target years ago, if only to be able to duplicate the work themselves sometime. I think I'm safe in further assuming that they were largely successful. If so, what are the odds that the mainland Chinese now have the ability to shut off those machines themselves?
All someone has to do is walk through the "clean" area with a lit highway flare.
ReplyDeleteThe machines would be rendered useless.
Makes me wonder if some of these are stashed for just this occasion...
I'd guess they wouldn't survive nearby combat either.
ReplyDeleteAnything that would release particulates and/or corrosive gasses into the clean environment would do the trick. Thermite would be an excellent candidate.
ReplyDeleteI would not be surprised if there wasn't some innocuous "Hot Key" combination already in place.
[CTRL]+[ALT]+[Ka-Boom]