bttt
Funny! Spy devices, indeed.
I use a hard-wired network at my home for business and personal stuff. But my wife just bought a new Dell cheapo notebook PC ($499...what a deal!). So, as is my duty, I set it up for her. Once I had all the set up stuff done, I clicked the wireless networking button. Bingo! There were four unprotected wireless networks available to me, and I live in a neighborhood of low-priced homes.
Just to see how stupid these folks were, I connected to each of them. Three had multiple computers in their local network, all with file-sharing enabled, but with not even so much as password protection, so I logged into their networks, then printed a little page I wrote up on their printer, advising them that their network and data were available to all comers and that they might consider some protection.
I'll never access their systems again, of course, but it made me wonder just how many government and business systems are set up so sloppily.
Perhaps I'll take a drive to downtown Saint Paul and just check it out. I'll bet I'll be amazed.
The problem isn't in these Chinese laptops. It's in the stupidity of the IT people who set up the networks.
Is there any brand of laptop not made in China or which has many Chinese made components? If not made in China, most laptops have parts made in Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, S. Korea, etc. Chinese companies own parts of those too.
Every laptop the US government uses for high security should first be tested by the NSA for built in bugs.
Shame on IBM (I Bag Money)