Pentagon Paying Chinese for Satellite Bandwidth

Washington Free Beacon ^ | 4/30/13 | Staff

[Nachum]

The Pentagon revealed late last week it is paying the Chinese $10 million for a one-year lease for a satellite that allows U.S. troops on the African continent to keep in touch and share information, Wired reports. The announcement has U.S. policymakers on edge. Over the last several years, the U.S. government has publicly and loudly expressed its concern that too much sensitive American data passes through Chinese electronics — and that those electronics could be sieves for Beijing’s intelligence services. But the Pentagon says it has no other choice than to use the Chinese satellite.

[detective]

The Clinton Administration gave ballistic missile technology and other technology to the Chicoms. Handing over technology to China seems a priority to the Obama Administration.

[Gaffer]

I guess the US is pretty confident their encryption is not vulnerable...NSA certified and all that.

They are wrong.

[knarf]

WE don't have our OWN military satellites ??!!?

Since when and why ?

[DarrellZero]

Sure, what could go wrong?

[ldish]

obama is in season...treason is the reason!

[Resolute Conservative]

Wrong on so many levels.

[fso301]

What happened to the Iridium bandwidth?

[andyk]

We pay Russians to launch us up to our space station. Why not pay the Chinese to communicate with overseas troops?

[Hardraade]

Of course.

The quislings have already sold off most US military resources to the chinese and the arabs anyway.

Think the US can make a single JDAM without buying the parts from china, who bought the producers and the rare-earth supplies from the US?

[rdcbn]

guess the US is pretty confident their encryption is not vulnerable...NSA certified and all that.

They are wrong.

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And thats assuming they actually have to decrypt the traffic, as opposed to having a spy or mole simply provide them with necessary decryption info.

[andyk]

Iridium bandwidth => pr0n.

[TurboZamboni]

There’s a Poofer PFC Manning app for that.

[Hardraade]

There isn’t one administration member who should escape the death penalty.

Not one.

[Darksheare]

That’s real secure.
/ sarc.

[GeorgeWashingtonsGhost]

"But the Pentagon says it has no other choice than to use the Chinese satellite."

Pure B.S.

[ldish]

Agree!!!

[DustyMoment]

And, of course, the Chicoms aren’t tapping that bandwidth at all!!

(Is there anyone in the Pentagon who has even the slightest clue about . . . . . . . . . . . . . ANYTHING!!???)

[Gaffer]

Even without the skinny....the decode of the traffic is just a matter of time and computing power.

[0.E.O]

Who was the idiot who thought this one up?