[Inyo-Mono]

Made in China. Figures.

[Army Air Corps]

Ping

[VOA]

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[KoRn]

I’m not surprised....

[Rocky]

Chinese gov’t not to blame for infected hard-drives?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1929251/posts

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Security experts say the malicious software is apparently being loaded at the final stage of production, when gadgets are pulled from the assembly line and plugged in to a computer to make sure everything works. If the testing computer is infected -- say, by a worker who used it to charge his own infected iPod -- the digital germ can spread to anything else that gets plugged in.

This sounds like complete BS. Don 't these hardware devices use embedded OSes embedded in EPROMS or EEPROMS? I wouldn't think they could get a virus from a PC. This sounds more like deliberate sabotage performed much further upstream when the vendor gets the golden master to load into the devices during manufacture. There is huge money in the spam "industry" and large global gangs drive the technology. I suspect that somebody in engineering pinched the object code to be loaded into the devices and sent it to the spam gang where it was decompiled, the virus inserted and then recompiled. The engineer then substituted the modified object code from the spam gang for the original object code. My bet is that you'll find engineer(s) and their managers on the take in China. This is not a casual accident and money is changing hands. The big surprise is the US companies are not checking the code on the finished devices against their master or comparing simple checksums.

[HangnJudge]

[metmom]

ping

[ex-Texan]

* BUMP*!

[WilliamofCarmichael]

"You expect quality control coming out of the manufacturers," said Askew, 42. "You don't expect that sort of thing to be on there."

Protectionist!

(Just in case, it's sarcasm.)

[rabscuttle385]

The easiest means of dealing with this threat is to have a testbed PC, locked down, running a heavily secured Linux or BSD install. And, as for newly procured storage devices, seriously, just wipe them clean before use. In other words, treat every newly procured device as a potential threat, and clean it up yourself before attaching it to a clean PC.

[Secret Agent Man]

Come on capitalist boy, we hack you long time...

[harrysnyder]

When will Americans wake up? Don’t buy Chinese products. Everyone I know avoids “Made in China”. Sure nowadays it’s difficult to find non-Chinese products but if you ask yourself if you really need it then usually the answer is “no”. I find alternatives or do without.

[ShadowAce]

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

Talk about your ultimate loss leader...

[sionnsar]

ping

[ffusco]

Even my g.f. is made in China!