THESE CASES ARE IP OR REVENUE FRAUD. THESE CASES ARE NOT ESPIONAGE-ON-A-CHIP.
Your links go a step further in obfuscation by interchangeably mixing IP theft via soft hacking, and "fake parts" which are totally different.
As your own links show, you've got a John Pironti (a counsultant with a fax machine) and Richard Clark trying to sell some consulting.
Go ahead and focus on the PLA. Ban all "Chicom components." Then explain how that does one goddam thing to avoid true espionage as I describe above.
Get it through your head.
FAKE PARTS are fraud. Those cost companies Dollars.
Espionage parts will be LEGIT. Those cost lives.
That's the difference.
Thanks for the discussion but the use of all-caps is usually a wave-off for me.
I’ll just say that the IP, revenue and equipment failure issue of counterfeit-for-profit chips is trivial compared to the threat posed by (yes, good quality -Duh) counterfeit espionage chips.
And don’t knock Richard Clarke. He’s a stand-up guy (read: principled) who knows exactly what he is talking about regarding cyber warfare.
http://www.richardaclarke.net/