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FBI Concerned About Implications of Counterfeit Cisco Gear

Posted by timothy on from the now-watch-these-chickens-well dept.

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.

2 of 273 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Well that's a change by 0racle · · Score: 0, Troll

    Absolutely, a xenophobic, if we don't do it it shouldn't be done and if it wasn't made here it's no good is the way to go.

    --
    "I use a Mac because I'm just better than you are."
  2. I've asked you twice to support your claims by hassanchop · · Score: 0, Troll
    You've claimed, twice now, that I've made statements that I did not actually make.

    Are you capable of supporting your claims, or should I take your silence on the issue as an admission that you were fabricating said claims?

    oh, er, I meant libertarians


    BZZZT. You lose again.

    I'm not going to justify anything to you


    Because you can't and you know it, so you make a lame excuse.

    I'm just going to keep tagging you for your part in what you people have done to this country.


    What on earth makes you think I've done ANYTHING to this country, boy? How do you even know I'm in "this" country? You know what they say about assumptions, they make you look like a fucking idiot.

    any more respect for your intellectual games


    I asked you to support your claims that I lied. You haven't. So what part of that, specifically, a game? The asking you for sources part or the asking you to prove a statement you made part? It's not hard, if I said what you claim, quote it. Three posts later you haven't, and the excuses keep coming.

    This time it's an intellectual game I'm playing, holding you accountable for claims you made. It says a lot about your character that a request for truthfulness is an "intellectual game" to you.