Qu Jianlei really had not considered the issue of backdoors in starships at first.
Xiao Hu in his possession was a king among artificial intelligences. Did he really need to worry about something like that? But the colonel had dealt with military equipment too often, so such concerns came naturally to him.
Hearing this, Qu Jianlei realized that he had indeed been somewhat careless, so he informed Xiao Hu.
Xiao Hu inspected the captured starships and, sure enough, actually found backdoors.
It had already removed all the starships' trackers before. This time, it simply went through their underlying logic as well.
The backdoors had been hardcoded into the chips themselves—the underlying logic.
The logic was designed so that if these weapons attacked Alliance warships, once the other side activated the corresponding application, the chips would automatically lock up.
Once the chips were locked, even possessing the control system would be useless.
Xiao Hu was highly capable and could even alter a chip's applications, but hardcoded chips... were extremely difficult to modify.
The problem was that if they were forcibly modified on short notice, the things would self-destruct.
After learning this, even Qu Jianlei could not help clicking his tongue. Fortunately, he had asked one more question.
Xiao Hu felt that it had made a mistake and was somewhat embarrassed. "Those guys actually embedded this logic directly into the chips. How insidious!"
"That's normal enough," Qu Jianlei understood it clearly. "Think about Shenzhou's drones."
However, Xiao Hu said that not noticing it earlier was one thing, but now that it had been discovered, they only needed to modify the hardware.
That modification would take some time, though. After all, the chips had to be made by hand.
Moreover, Qu Jianlei had not previously devoted much effort to studying chips.
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