Sean Linnane aka Stormbringer reports:
Last year, the U.S. Navy bought 59,000 microchips for use in everything from missiles to transponders and all of them turned out to be counterfeits from China.And how about the regular, quite mundane stuff in your house, like your phones, your TV set, your computers?
Wired reports the chips weren't only low-quality fakes, they had been made with a "back-door" and could have been remotely shut down at any time.
What if...
8 comments:
Good bye chinese food. Say NO to remotely controlled noodles and eggrolls!
Couldn't believe it at first, then I found something on Wired (went there because I couldn't find the story on Stormbringer) that made me change my mind:
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/11/chipped-detainees-iran-mega-missiles-and-more-in-latest-wikileaks/
What can I say? Big dictators think alike...
I'm off to take some krav maga lessons. You know, just in case the electronic equipment in my house decides the time has come for Chinese Spring :)
Ah governments go beyond the gravy train, they are gravy boats - much slower and with far more opportunity to dip into!
Amazing, though I should not be surprised. The defense budget has been bloated (and top heavy with worthless generals) for many, many moons.
The best defense will be to by chopsticks then.
That wouldn't be gravy barges then?
What you are hinting at is that we have to start with the generals, then.
> <span> they had been made with a "back-door" and could have been remotely shut down at any time.</span>
That's exactly how the Cylons defeated the 12 Colonies at the start of Battlestar Galactica!
Thought so. They will, at that.
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