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The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies
Bloomberg | October 4, 2018, 4:00 AM CDT | Jordan Robertson and Michael Riley

Posted on 10/04/2018 11:21:15 AM PDT by Zhang Fei

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: amazon; apple; bloomberg; boycotts; california; china; diannefeinstein; maga; microchip; richardcblum; sanctions; sanfrancisco; tariffs; trade; trump
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To: tomkat

“Any of you tech wizards know of a utility to sniff one’s pc for spy crap like this ?
Specifically for Asus mobos”

the article says it’s essentially impossible right now to do that ...


21 posted on 10/04/2018 11:55:41 AM PDT by catnipman ((Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!))
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To: catnipman
Marvelous   :-\
Maybe if I can find the little bastard, get a nail set on it, and give it a little whack . . .
22 posted on 10/04/2018 12:00:33 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: Zhang Fei

I was watching an action-adventure movie awhile back, it wasn’t all that good - but in it, the Chinese manage to pretty much takeover the US by shutting down all US devices and computers remotely via already embedded chip-foolery.


23 posted on 10/04/2018 12:07:03 PM PDT by LouieFisk
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To: DakotaGator

You have to watch out their new line of computers and phones, called “Trojan Horse.” /s


24 posted on 10/04/2018 12:08:03 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Kill-googl,TWITR,FACBK,NYT,WaPo,Hlywd,CNN,NFL,BLM,CAIR,Antifa,SPLC,ESPN,NPR,NBA)
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To: Zhang Fei

Good thing West Virginia is allowing “vote by phone”...what could go wrong?

https://www.vox.com/2018/8/17/17661876/west-virginia-voatz-voting-app-election-security

While I agree that there has to be a better way for the military to vote, THIS is not it!


25 posted on 10/04/2018 12:08:24 PM PDT by marstegreg
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To: catnipman

“Asus mobos”

Asus is a Taiwan company, I believe,


26 posted on 10/04/2018 12:09:24 PM PDT by LouieFisk
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To: Zhang Fei
". . . and the onboard networks of Navy warships."

That's interesting. The sort of interesting that could cause a ship to have the network shutdown as soon as a triggering signal is sent leaving the ship nearly or totally defenseless.

27 posted on 10/04/2018 12:12:57 PM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
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To: Zhang Fei

...and who are we indicting? RUSSIANS.


28 posted on 10/04/2018 12:16:41 PM PDT by montag813
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To: montag813

[...and who are we indicting? RUSSIANS.]


While the Chinese are the main event, the Russians aren’t our friends, either. And we do sanction and indict Chinese agents, although news coverage is generally scant, because the liberal media’s lie of the day is that Trump is a Russian agent. But you can relax - the next lie they trot out will be that Trump is a Chinese agent. And then the coverage will focus on all the indicted Chinese who are currently being covered in tiny columns deep in the newspaper, if they are covered at all.


29 posted on 10/04/2018 12:21:34 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (They can have my pitbull when they pry his cold dead jaws off my ass.)
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To: catnipman

Dang, just skimmed that article - scary stuff, esp. re our military having that crap onboard.
Most of it was waaaay over my head, but sure reinforces my inherent distrust of anything ‘cloud’ related.
Not that avoiding it would help much other than make me feel like I was doing a little something defensive.

F’n Chinese.
The new Soviets.


30 posted on 10/04/2018 12:26:47 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: tomkat

I have a big distrust of the “cloud”.

That’s the way we’re going, like it or not.


32 posted on 10/04/2018 12:44:31 PM PDT by wally_bert (I will competently make sure the thing is done incompetently.)
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To: carriage_hill

Buying Bill,Hill, and Al was a cheap investment for the Chinese.

No doubt it paid big to them. We will probably pay even more someday courtesy of the three aforementioned. If/when they will most likely be rotting in hell.


33 posted on 10/04/2018 12:47:41 PM PDT by wally_bert (I will competently make sure the thing is done incompetently.)
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To: BenLurkin

BARF ALERT NEXT TIME PLEASE ...


34 posted on 10/04/2018 12:57:30 PM PDT by mabarker1 (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!!)
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To: BenLurkin
$inator CHICOMFI!


35 posted on 10/04/2018 12:57:40 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (MASA Make America Safe! Again!! MAGA make America Great Again!!! *USMCA, President Trump Wins Again!)
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To: wally_bert

Agreed.


36 posted on 10/04/2018 12:58:22 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (Life is simpler when you plow around the stump.)
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To: wally_bert
That’s the way we’re going, like it or not.

Not me, FRiend.
Other than FR, a couple weather sites, and the local college's streaming sports, my 'net usage is very limited.
Still use an old flip phone w/o 'net access, and it suits me just fine.
And not likely to live long enough to worry about the too distant future.
Just hope the young'uns can get things squared away before it makes slaves of all of them.

37 posted on 10/04/2018 12:58:44 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: butlerweave

If you have your stuff made in China you get a little extra!

So do the ChiComs and their own US $inator, Chifi!


38 posted on 10/04/2018 12:59:28 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (MASA Make America Safe! Again!! MAGA make America Great Again!!! *USMCA, President Trump Wins Again!)
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To: tomkat

In the personal side, I avoid cloud stuff as best I can. Granted it seems to get harder to do.

I just finished a Udemy class for Security plus and it touched on cloud stuff and some of the potential pitfalls.


39 posted on 10/04/2018 1:04:08 PM PDT by wally_bert (I will competently make sure the thing is done incompetently.)
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To: Zhang Fei

Any time I have to log in somewhere and the ping time goes from 40-50 ms to 200+ms, it’s a good bet your data isn’t staying in Kansas anymore, Toto.


40 posted on 10/04/2018 1:36:02 PM PDT by Uber-Eng (ALWAYS remember that some idiot thinks you having a bad day will somehow make their day better)
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