The linked article doesn’t make clear what components are of Chinese manufacture.
Microcontrollers? E2prom or other NVM?
Like you imply, capacitors aren’t a real threat vector, unless you want the machine to *break.*
This is a long-winded way of saying, “yes.”
Marc Jacobs (he/him)
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