Sure it would be easy for them to sneak it in there, but is the US so incompetent that it can not detect it? Otherwise where is the proof of this statistically significant physical spyware?
Modern electronics are incredibly complex. For instance, did you know that your CPU most likely has its own web server on board? It would be easy for a dedicated party - one that also controls manufacturing - to introduce changes on PCB or even component level. Changes that you'd have no way of figuring out they're there.
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