Are we Yanks setting ourselves up for disaster? on Thursday October 28, @06:30PM theindustrialphreak Comments: 0
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theindustrialphreak writes "The question exactly are we setting ourselves up for intellectual property theft and plausible IT disaster (Industrial/political espionage/Terrorism) by outsourcing hardware/software level solutions as well as complete system builds to potential hostile foreign country's/city states? Remember during the cold war their were several DoD security threats based of malicious firmware injected into the micro-controllers inside printers not to mention several recent incarnations via bogus network hardware. Can we really trust FC based out of a society that has proven time and time again to violate basic human rights, and recently put rare earth element export embargo's on our allied nations? article about hardware http://www.pcworld.com/article/195791/us_agencies_crack_down_on_counterfeit_networking_hardware.htmlhttp://onlyhardwareblog.com/2010/10/building-backdoors-into-computer-chips/"
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Are we Yanks setting ourselves up for disaster? on Thursday October 28, @06:30PM theindustrialphreak Comments: 0 Submitted by theindustrialphreak on Thursday October 28, @06:30PM theindustrialphreak writes "The question exactly are we setting ourselves up for intellectual property theft and plausible IT disaster (Industrial/political espionage/Terrorism) by outsourcing hardware/software level solutions as well as complete system builds to potential hostile foreign country's/city states? Remember during the cold war their were several DoD security threats based of malicious firmware injected into the micro-controllers inside printers not to mention several recent incarnations via bogus network hardware. Can we really trust FC based out of a society that has proven time and time again to violate basic human rights, and recently put rare earth element export embargo's on our allied nations? article about hardware http://www.pcworld.com/article/195791/us_agencies_crack_down_on_counterfeit_networking_hardware.html http://onlyhardwareblog.com/2010/10/building-backdoors-into-computer-chips/"