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Hidden Malware in Foreign-Made Devices - Who knew? |
2011-09-01 |
Posted by:Besoeker |
#8 What next Joe? Look for China to sue /EPA style/ for environmental condition birth and developmental defects brought about by American firms outsourcing dirty manufacturing to China. Look for Arab states to sue American firms for selling 'pollution enabling' goods. Kinda like the child labor law/garment manufacturing issue. Which we all ignore. |
Posted by: Skidmark 2011-09-01 21:38 |
#7 D *** NG IT, China can't do that - the Islamists have been complaining about Israeli sex toys! Now what the Boyz going to rant about??? |
Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-09-01 21:25 |
#6 And this has been known since at least 2006. Ric Romero reporting! |
Posted by: DarthVader 2011-09-01 12:28 |
#5 Who knew? Pretty much anybody who was paying attention? |
Posted by: mojo 2011-09-01 10:47 |
#4 China's enormous scale industrial espionage effort actually points out a severe problem in China. One of the biggest values to R&D comes from doing the work, not just enjoying the results of that work. You learn as much or more by failing with experiments and process errors, as you do making breakthroughs. This truly matters when things fail, because you don't have a clue as to why, or what process you have to change so that it works. This is why many of their high performance aircraft have crippling maintenance costs. |
Posted by: Anonymoose 2011-09-01 10:11 |
#3 Hmmm, Built in spyware? |
Posted by: Redneck Jim 2011-09-01 10:01 |
#2 foreign-manufactured software or hardware components had been purposely embedded with malware or insertions that pose a security risk. Not a surprise. I'm betting China did this. Our strategic interests are being threatened by the cozy relationship with our |
Posted by: JohnQC 2011-09-01 10:00 |
#1 Toasters gone WILD! |
Posted by: Skidmark 2011-09-01 08:50 |