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

[mia]

http://www.businessinsider.com/military-sources-china-could-shut-down-all-the-telecommunications-technology-it-sold-to-america-2012-6


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. These sources assert that Huawei and other Chinese telecommunications firms such as ZTE Corp. have "electronic backdoors" to telecommunications technology sold to the U.S. and other countries....

In attempting to uncover cyber attacks before too much damage has been done, sources say that there are millions of lines of software code that transmit data securely and to find a malicious code would be problematic and cost-prohibitive.

[annabanana]

1. Well doesn't THAT make all that outsourcing

look smart?

[Zalatix]

3. Now, now. We have to become impoverished to help the third world get rich.

Even if it means sacrificing our national security.

[katsy]

7. LOL!

Why yes. We deployed the smartest guys in the room to manage that!

[Zalatix]

2. Tinfoil hat theory today, "I f**king told you so" tomorrow.

When will we ever learn?

[Ohio Joe]

4. Are you shitting me? world nut daily? Farah?

What. The. Fuck?

[HopeHoops]

5. They made most of the chips anyway, why wouldn't they be able to?

[Egalitarian Thug]

6. Would rather see a better source, but this is but one of the things so many of us in the industry

were warning of. It is too easy to do this kind of thing to think that any government, especially a totalitarian government like China's, wouldn't. OTOH, their military goals are not directed primarily at us. They know they will defeat us with our own stupidity through our corporations, so no military solution is needed.

[Franker65]

8. Bad News

That's pretty disturbing. But I guess this is the way things are in the 21st century and the dependency on technology. Hopefully the US has some backup options.