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Hair dryers and decoy servers: how the alleged fraud worked

October 11, 2026
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Workers use hair dryers to remove serial numbers from servers and place them on empty chassis. According to the investigation reported by Tom’s Hardware, those chassis were meant to pass for the real equipment in front of inspectors. The actual servers took another route: to China. What has changed

Workers use hair dryers to remove serial numbers from servers and place them on empty chassis. According to the investigation reported by Tom’s Hardware, those chassis were meant to pass for the real equipment in front of inspectors. The actual servers took another route: to China. What has changed now in that case? Ting-Wei “Willy” Sun, the middleman accused of participating in the diversion, has pleaded guilty. He did so through a plea agreement with prosecutors, but details of any possible cooperation have not been published. His plea is the concrete development in the news; the charges against the other two defendants are proceeding separately.

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