Let's see, why are
our computers, Emails, Twitter and Facebook accounts
being hacked by China and
Russia?
China hardware could
be used for Cyber Espionage
Back in the early
1980's while I was still a newbie to computers and reading my newspaper
(The New London
Day).
I was shocked to
read about our
military outsourcing computer equipment
to China of all places.
Not nearly as
shocked as the author,
some retired navy admiral.
As he said back
then,
computers controlled the armed forces airplanes, ships and equipment
and
China is still a communist country.
Today 98% of
everything made, bought and sold in this country is made in another country,
including our computers and their software.
U.S. Military
Cautions Hardware from China could be used for Cyber Espionage
Defense officials
have said that Pentagon's staff of late warned that no agency should use
equipments of the computer manufacturer Lenovo of China following alarms that
Pentagon networks could be spied upon.
According to one
latest internal report that J-2 intelligence directorate presented,
cyber-security officers feel alarmed that handheld devices and computers of
Lenovo are likely to add remotely-controlled tainted hardware to the supply
chain of Defense Department, endangering it with cyber espionage.
Pentagon uses the
term
'supply chain'
to mean its
worldwide suppliers' network which disburses chief components in the
manufacture of military systems and weapons.
Yalibnan.com
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