Chinese Regime Has Backdoor Access to US Systems

The Epoc Times ^ | 5/26/2012 | Joshua Philipp and Epoc Times Staff

[ex-Texan]

Well what else is new __ ? Fools with power control everything today, even our top military staff and hundreds of computer systems run by the alphabet agencies

China probably manufactures all weapons and ammunition used by US troops and most of our military airplane parts. The whole world is corrupt and China is getting richer while we are getting poorer. Sad but true

[ex-Texan]

*Ping* !

[TomasUSMC]

Yeah but their backdoor has on of our backdoors so.......well I wish. What the hell do we expect to happen when our chips are made by COMMMMMMUNNNIST CHINA.!!!

[Carry_Okie]

Nixon, Kissinger, China, “free trade,” RINOS.

See tag line.

[risen_feenix]

I think most free trade advocates would make the argument that national security should not be farmed out to any foreign bidders, lowest bid or not. Some things are worth paying extra for.

[Tuketu]

DUH! Stupid is as stupid does.

[unkus]

All the people in positions to do anything about this are either quietly fixing the problem or think themselves immune to the disaster.

We’re lucky to have survived for this long.

[Gen-X-Dad]

To bad the greedy and stupid CEO’s strip mining our country for short term profits didn’t get the memo. China is strategically cleaning our clocks and the free trade crowd says look I made another 100 million so I must be successful. Profits are not everything and collapsing the economic system to prove this point is going to be painful.

[Carry_Okie]

I think most free trade advocates would make the argument that national security should not be farmed out to any foreign bidders, lowest bid or not. Some things are worth paying extra for.

Were the companies importing said products LIABLE for said risks, my bet is that they would not be doing this.

[Eagles6]

Kruschev once said, “We will hang you ... and you will sell us the rope”.

Close. “We’ll hang ourselves and buy the rope from you.”

[null and void]

Weren’t you assuring us that this wasn’t happening just 2 weeks ago today?

[HiTech RedNeck]

Normally all security critical systems are kept off the public internet, so there would be no way for a spyware worm to communicate with a back door. However there are tricks like putting the worm on a thumb drive, labeling it porn, and “losing” it in the parking lot of a secure facility.

[Carry_Okie]

Normally all security critical systems are kept off the public internet,

One wonders if these chips can be queried through their power supplies via the power grid. Doubt it, but it would be interesting. If you did the transmission slow enough, the signal to noise might be lower and yet harder to detect.

[An.American.Expatriate]

And a foreign state owned telecommunication company is also a primary provider for sensitive US Government communications systems. But it’s okay, that government is mostly friendly to our causes - except when it’s not and actively works against us. That only happens every other year or so, so I guess that is a risk we can take.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Tapping out a signal that way would be troublesome. Computing equipment might sense power sags, but would be oblivious to any signal frequencies riding on the power wires, and would have no way of modulating same. That is, not without purpose built equipment, such as ethernet over power lines. And causing a sag to happen would be instantly seen as a bad, bad bug.

[Clintonfatigued]

Manufacturing American military software in a potentially hostile country just amazes me. Whose dumb idea was this?

[unkus]

Whose dumb idea was this?

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people who made a lot of money.

May they suffer greatly.

[goron]

Well at least we got a great deal on all those Chinese chips!

This is all just part of Slick Willie's legacy of 'free trade' and cheap Walmart junk retailing for less than US companies could make it for wholesale.

It's all about price afterall. If we would have wanted secure EPROM chips within the systems of our military's printed circuit boards, we could have made them here, but WOW, look at the low prices!

[GOPsterinMA]

“Whose dumb idea was this?”

Bill Clinton’s?