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Posted on 10/06/2008 11:25:23 PM PDT by pissant
Fake microchips from China are causing a growing number of failures in military systems, according to an investigation by BusinessWeek magazine.
The FBI is also investigating a consignment of Cisco-badged routers which turned out to be counterfeit - and could have been used to hack into sensitive equipment.
The investigation found that the new tendency for the US Pentagon to buy equipment from off-the-shelf suppliers - some of them operating from residential addresses - has led to a fall in quality of supplied chips:
Robert P. Ernst, who heads research into counterfeit parts for the Naval Air Systems Command's Aging Aircraft Program in Patuxent River, Md. Ernst estimates that as many as 15% of all the spare and replacement microchips the Pentagon buys are counterfeit. As a result, he says, "we are having field failures regularly within our weapon systems—and in almost every weapon system."
And the "Cisco" routers? There were about 400:
counterfeit routers made in China and sold to the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines over the past four years. These fakes could facilitate foreign espionage, as well as cause accidents. The U.S. Justice Dept. is prosecuting the operators of an electronics distributor in Texas—and last year obtained guilty pleas from the proprietors of a company in Washington State—for allegedly selling the military dozens of falsely labeled routers, devices that direct data through digital networks. The routers were marked as having been made by the San Jose technology giant Cisco Systems
BusinessWeek tracked the source of the parts back to traders in Shenzhen, China:
The traders typically obtain supplies from recycled-chip emporiums such as the Guiyu Electronics Market outside the city of Shantou in southeastern China.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
Well said
Yes, and politicians that encourage it with bogus trade deals and tax incentives to offshore our industry need to be tarred and feathered.
I remember the crane parts from China that we had to finally ban from use a few years ago. Dangerous and made from subpar quality steel.
As Mitt Romney cheers them on.......
BUMP
>>>I remember the crane parts from China that we had to finally ban from use a few years ago.
Apparently that memo didn’t get out to all. NYC had a number of accidents recently with falty cranes and paid off inspectors.
REPUBLICANS START PAYING ATTENTION, DAMMIT!!!
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They only pay attention when they are afraid of losing money in their own accounts and stocks.
We need a Revolution before Morning turns to MOURNING.
Thank you for this ping.
When is this ever going to stop. Americans have lost all common sense.
I fly United Airlines frequently. Look at this:
United now outsources all of its heavy maintenance of Boeing 747s and 777s to South Korea and China. In the Beijing repair station, only five of 2,179 mechanics are certified by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,246185.shtml
Duncan nailed it. Again.
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