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FBI Concerned About Implications of Counterfeit Cisco Gear
SpicyBrownMustard writes "An FBI PowerPoint presentation provides details about a criminal investigation into counterfeit CISCO hardware originating from China, and sold by Gold/Silver partners to numerous US government, military, and intelligence agencies. The concern of the article's author and the FBI is that the counterfeit equipment may be state-sponsored to aid in accessing otherwise secure systems (slides 46+47). Says the article author: 'The threat is real. Compromised hardware of potentially hostile foreign origin sits within secure networks of the US government, military, and intelligence services. And as you now see, the FBI has been concerned about it.'" We've mentioned the seizure of some of this equipment before, but this presentation adds quite a bit of detail, and highlights the FBI's concern of Chinese government involvement.
Americans who deserve to work 40-50 hour weeks, own their own car house and TV and as many kids as they want subsidized by taxpayers? If you take away cheap Chinese goods in the name of 'security', these Americans might have to give up their house or a car or have less children. Besides, the only security we need to worry about is security from Arab terrorists who hate our freedom, don't worry about economic imbalances and lost opportunity in the job market. You're just being negative and bringing America down!
Blar.
For starters, more information will be forthcoming. Some of the CPUs from China have different designs then what they should (hello intel). In addition, extra circuitry has been found in bioses flash ram. The scary part is that China is not gearing up to improve their economy or even for defense. They are using this to plan an attack. For you naysayers, think of the articles that have shown up here about the laser trying to blind one of our sats; Another that blew out our sats. What use is that? It is only of use if you wish to deny the opposition the ability to attack BACK. It does not help you if the attack is underway. IOW, if we launch first, by the time that China could react, our missiles would already know what, where, when, etc. The current Chinese leaders are STILL the same that they were 50 years ago; they believe that power is done via a gun. Mao once said that he would acquire the nuke even if it killed 1/2 of china. But what is china doing now with all the pollution? Killing them in the interest of moving fast enough to build up a military capable of taking on USA. In addition, they are trying hard to appease EU in hopes that they will stay out of this. Hopefully, EU learned their lessons about appeasing such leaders. It will never work.