U.S. official says pre-infected computer tech entering country

MSNBC ^ | 7/8/2011 | M. Alex Johnson

[jefferson31415]

Confirming years of warnings from government and private security experts, a top Homeland Security official has acknowledged that computer hardware and software is already being imported to the United States preloaded with spyware and security-sabotaging components.

[jefferson31415]

This is what happens when you give away your entire manufacturing base, can't say I'm surprised.

[Soothesayer9]

Bet they’re wishing they hadn’t outsourced all of the computer science jobs to china and India.

[eak3]

Lovely!! I’m already not able to buy a new cel phone because I dont want the supposed govt provided amber alert chip in it. What next? Cant buy a new computer because who knows who might be stealing my banking info and whatnot as soon as I open the box?

[Dallas59]

But it’s racist to let America manufacture anything!

[mreerm]

is this new?

what about electronic picture frames a few years ago?

[dennisw]

If I buy a Dell made in China laptop is there Chinese spyware embedded in the chips (chip set) which undoubtedly are Chinese made too except for the CPU

[dennisw]

But it’s racist to let America manufacture anything!>>>>

It’s racist to keep Mexican trucks out of America. The Obama voting Teamsters just got royally screwed by Bammy Boy. Not to mention the independent truckers

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

If they’re talking about PCs, which is most everyone’s concern, it sounds like a great opportunity for some American entrepreneur to make a fortune selling “high security” computers, with guaranteed hardware all made in the US and tightly quality controlled.

Granted, there may be overt, or covert requirements mandating USG backdoors, such as the CALEA, to prevent anyone from keeping any secrets from government voyeurism, but at least you can keep out most foreign government and corporations trying to spy on you.

But the bottom line is that there are so many dark and downright evil forces at work trying to end the Internet and the free exchange of ideas, that sooner or later it will all come crashing down anyway, despite their pleas that to not use the Internet will destroy the economy.

Thus, to the parasites and control freaks, “If you didn’t want to kill the body, then why did you infest every part of it?”

[Will88]

Schaffer didn't say whether the equipment he was talking about included end-user consumer tech like retail laptops, DVDs and media players.

And even as they break this news, they still protect the guilty parties and fail to state what specific products are infected and from which exporting nation(s) they are coming.

They'll hide the details here just like they hide the details of all the cheating on trade agreements by our trading 'partners'.

[hamboy]

AFAIK some OEM’s put rootkits but dunno if embedded also in BIOS firmware...

[elpadre]

deal with the devil and you will receive evil desserts in return.

and this probably just a smidge of what’s coming, and is already here.

[servantboy777]

Recently it was reported the U.S. Navy purchased 59000 chips with back-doors built into them purportedly to enable the Chinese to shutdown sensitive military equipment on demand.

I submit that our government leaders are complicit in harming the national security of this country.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/14/AR2010091406468.html

[dragnet2]

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[Selene]

Just wow! Meltdown at 53:04.

I wonder what is on the ultra cheap thumb drives I just bought?

[SengirV]

It’s basically what happened in the Battlestar Galactica remake.

[FreeAtlanta]

I have wondered what backdoors China has had into fully manufactured in Commie China Mackintosh’s have had for years. Add ipads and iphones to the list.

It is insanity to let our enemies have such control over us. It is like the Roman’s outsourcing the city guards to the barbarians.

[DUMBGRUNT]

Any PC motherboards still mane in the USA?

[Nebr FAL owner]

Govt back doors can be a problem but the use of national command authority encryption on a second hand laptop that is not ever connected to the web & used only as a crypto machine to encrypt files for a machine that is connected to the web would give the govt. type indigestion. As long as you keep the crypto machine off the web the only way to get info about encryption is by direct access & that causes bad publicity for the govt. flunkies.

[dennisw]

Thanks much!

[dennisw]

Thanks much!