Former Pentagon Analyst Says China Can Shut Down All The Telecom Gear It Sold To The US

business insider ^ | Jun. 8, 2012 | F. Michael Maloof

[Mount Athos]

Chinese companies apparently have a covert capability to remotely access communications technology sold to the United States and other Western countries and could "disable a country's telecommunications infrastructure before a military engagement," according to former and current intelligence sources.

The Chinese also have the ability to exploit networks "to enable China to continue to steal technology and trade secrets," according to the open source intelligence company Lignet, which is comprised of former U.S. intelligence analysts.

The issue centers on the Chinese firm Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., which U.S. intelligence sources say has direct links to the Chinese government and the People's Liberation Army, or PLA.

The problem of fake Chinese electronic components, which were installed by defense contractors without prior testing and are operating in U.S. military systems, is far more widespread than originally thought.

These counterfeit components have been found in sensitive U.S. missile systems meant to thwart the potential of a Chinese missile attack, in night vision devices and in various military aircraft.

"We do not want a $12 million defense interceptor's reliability compromised by a $2 counterfeit part," Gen. Patrick O'Reilly, director of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency said.

Huawei, suspected of exploiting electronic telecommunications backdoors, continues to sell communications technology in the U.S. and other countries despite a supposed ban on the company that was supposed to keep it from bidding on cellular networks and government contracts, a current intelligence source said.

The electronic backdoor capability reportedly could allow the Chinese government through Huawei and ZTE to access information traveling through telecommunications networks or even sabotage electronic devices, Lignet said.

[sinsofsolarempirefan]

I bet the chinese must be l(r)aughing the assess off at the stupid saucer-eyed children in the west for their utter naivete.
How can we all be so f’ing stupid?

[sinsofsolarempirefan]

I bet the chinese must be l(r)aughing the assess off at the stupid saucer-eyed children in the west for their utter naivete.
How can we all be so f’ing stupid?

[sand88]

amen, most stuff from China is worse than junk. Just this morning I was cleaning a manual can opener that is suppose to be Stainless steel. It’s from China and parts of it are rusting.

[itsahoot]

What if one is just primed for wide release of an activator molecule, say in food packaging? Man, where’s my foil when I need it?

You have enough to worry about in our own government.

The progressives do not like to share their planet with lower life forms.

[itsahoot]

We have got the dumbest set of politicians in all of American history.

It is a mistake to attribute all their to stupidity when there is a better explaination.

[wolfcreek]

“How can we all be so f’ing stupid?”

‘Cause it’s much easier than being smart.

[goron]

So China got the exported chips, reverse engineered them, and sold them back to the U.S. with some 'software upgrades' on the firmware?

FLASHBACK


Clinton Gave China Chip Technology For Nuclear Warfare

Exerpt(s): Declassified documents show that President Bill Clinton personally approved the transfer to China of advanced space technology that can be used for nuclear combat.
The documents show that in 1996 Clinton approved the export of radiation hardened chip sets to China. The specialized chips are necessary for fighting a nuclear war.
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U.S. intelligence sources stated that the newly released documents illustrate the extent to which the Clinton White House placed trade – and trade with China specifically – above national security.

"In all likelihood we will be glowing in the dark before we discover the true extent of the Clinton decade of betrayal," stated Rick Fisher, Asian Security Fellow at the Center for Security Policy.

[Last Dakotan]

Where’s all our wonderful free trade gloablist FReepers now?

They don't comment on trade issues much anymore. Time has proven them wrong.

Giving the enemy free access to our economy may not have been the stupidest thing the US has ever done, but it has to be close.

[jrestrepo]

Not likely

[familyop]

"Here’s an idea.

Stop buying Chinese shit!"

Let's see...who's worse--the Chinese, or the local political regulators, their globalist bosses in exclusively approved businesses and their pensioned, NIMBY eyes and ears around the community?

Buy Chinese, and build a personal/family fallout shelter.

;-)

[familyop]

"It is a mistake to attribute all their to stupidity when there is a better explaination."

Agreed. American globalists and the local regulators who prevent domestic competition are criminals.

[HiTech RedNeck]

How are the chips supposed to know that it’s China their equipment is in a war with?

[STD]

The Predator Hawk Fleet has been compromised. I’m reasonably certain any ‘off the self DARPA product has been as well.

[Secret Agent Man]

Great movie.

[waxer1]

Just brilliant

[Olog-hai]

Wow. Alexander Hamilton’s words coming to life.

Not only the wealth, but the independence and security of a country appear to be materially connected with the prosperity of manufactures. Every nation, with a view to those great objects, ought to endeavor to possess within itself all the essentials of national supply. These comprise the means of subsistence, habitation, clothing, and defense. …

What a brilliant stratagem, relying on the country’s enemies for such supply, yes?

They have blown the trumpet, even to make all ready; but none goeth to the battle: for my wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.

— Ezekiel 7:14

[antceecee]

Idiocy on parade! Amazing ... worse than Inspector Clouseau!!! And he was FICTION!!!