The people who have toddlers and don't use high shelves with no crawl-up access, or something to shove toward the shelf to crawl up to it, should be shot and killed by toddlers.
All very well, however really a lot of the people shot are kids, random visitors, the toddler themselves or other toddlers. Toddlers don't tend to go hunt down the legal owner to enact some sort of darwinian karma, weirdly enough.
Not everyone will see every thread on a topic. Some may only see a TSA thread on HN once a month or quarter, if they're a light user.
The repetition is indicative of the community's feeling a topic is important. And that's what people come here for. To see what this community thinks is important.
But they'd disappear the dwindling people that still have the courage (in the face of almost certain death) who shared the story on WeChat etc shortly afterward.
On that basis, you shouldn't trust any chip on any piece of hardware out there, ever.
It's also not "me" speaking on authority, I'm merely going by what the actual authorities and responsible people are saying [0]. I mean, this was months ago, still no actual samples of that chip, still no CVE out about any of it.
We've (the "community"?) have been trying to build/have built phones without baseband backdoors/hardware killswitches, chips without Intel Management Engine, etc.
Feel free to check out those threads if you've missed them.
This isn't about a specific case, by the way. This is the reality of the state of chip production.
