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With my limited experience in FOIA (freedom of information act) requests, I think this is a hoax.
FOIA requests that I deal with are almost always requests for specific information. you have to know what you're looking for before you can ask the question. with no established link between the hardware and the DHS other than some policeman's recommendation, i can't picture someone actually asking DHS what a chip is doing in their laptop and expecting a decent answer.
i mean, what would you do if someone called your office and asked why their refrigerator made pear-shaped ice instead of cubes? there might be weird and sinister explanation... but how the hell would you know?
both the possibility of this actually happening coupled with the story's content/source makes this appear unlikely.
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