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China able to spy on US with intelligence-gathering devices on seaport cranes, House report finds
https://nypost.com ^ | 9/12/2024 | Caitlin Doornbos

Posted on 09/13/2024 11:05:19 AM PDT by bitt

WASHINGTON – A Chinese company installed intelligence gathering equipment on cranes used at seaports across the US that could allow Beijing to spy on Americans and cripple key infrastructure, according to a new congressional report.

The Republican majorities on the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party and House Homeland Security Committee found that the Shanghai-based, state-owned ZPMC engineering company had pressured American port authorities to allow remote access to its cranes, “with a particular focus on those located on the West Coast.”

“If granted, this access could potentially be extended to other [People’s Republican of China] government entities, posing a significant risk due to the PRC’s national security laws that mandate cooperation with state intelligence agencies,” adds the report, the outcome of a yearlong investigation.

The devices found attached to the cranes include cellular modems that were “not requested by US ports or included in contracts … [and] constitute a significant backdoor security vulnerability that undermines the integrity of port operations,” the report said.

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TOPICS: China; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections; War
KEYWORDS: china; obamalegacy; redchina; seaportcranes; zpmc

1 posted on 09/13/2024 11:05:19 AM PDT by bitt
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2 posted on 09/13/2024 11:05:33 AM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
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To: bitt

Why do we fear commies spying on us when commies run our country.


3 posted on 09/13/2024 11:07:09 AM PDT by Right Brother
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To: Right Brother

I don’t know which is worse, Commies or Democrats??

Duh me, DEMOCRATS are COMMIES!!!!!


4 posted on 09/13/2024 11:14:02 AM PDT by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: bitt

This was overseen by Angela Chao.

Mitch McConnell’s sister in law, who recently somehow drove her Tesla backward over obstacles in to a pond and drowned.


5 posted on 09/13/2024 11:17:57 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: bitt

China operates our ports.
China buying our farmland.
China sending intel balloons over our country.

All because of 10% for the Big Guy.


6 posted on 09/13/2024 11:18:33 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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To: bitt

Chinese spies working for our top government officials.
Chinese surveillance balloons traversing our country.
Chinese intelligence gathering equipment on cranes used at seaports.

They probably know more about us than the Pentagon does.


7 posted on 09/13/2024 11:27:11 AM PDT by CodeJockey
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To: bitt

Zapping those monitors with Lasers should handle this issue with ease.

We could set up a bounty for each instrument that is zapped.


8 posted on 09/13/2024 11:31:17 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (We have no shortage of experts, who state things as fact, but areally have no idea!)
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To: bitt

Senate Democrats reply, “ Its okay, they work for/with us.”


9 posted on 09/13/2024 11:54:32 AM PDT by airborne (Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic! )
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To: Right Brother

The threat from internal communists doesn’t erase the threat from foreign communists.


10 posted on 09/13/2024 11:57:27 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: bitt

The chicoms are simply using spying techniques, not just on port cranes, that are similar to the techniques that the japs used against the U.S. in the 1930s and 1940s...

The results will, eventually, be the same...
After all, the chicoms engineered and got away with the sneak virus attack that essentially destroyed the economy and what few freedoms & liberties remained in the U.S.

Communism is “rolling... rolling... rolling...


11 posted on 09/13/2024 12:43:10 PM PDT by SuperLuminal ( Where is Samuel Adams when we so desperately need him)
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To: NorthMountain; Right Brother

“ The threat from internal communists doesn’t erase the threat from foreign communists.”

True.

And, I think right brother is the former.


12 posted on 09/13/2024 12:51:50 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: ifinnegan

Your post is rubbish, but I wouldn’t expect anything else. You are a typical zeeper creeper.


13 posted on 09/13/2024 1:21:00 PM PDT by Right Brother
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To: bitt

China owns most of the seaports in the U.S. it’s not like nobody knew what was going on duh.


14 posted on 09/13/2024 1:21:53 PM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Right Brother

I’ll take that as confirmation.

Thanks for your honesty, comrade.


15 posted on 09/13/2024 1:30:44 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: bitt
Another success story brought to you by the free traitors.

Success story for the Chicoms, that is.

16 posted on 09/13/2024 3:01:37 PM PDT by TwelveOfTwenty (Will whoever keeps asking if this country can get any more insane please stop?)
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To: bitt

Which US politician agreed to this?
Was it Mitch McConnell or too many others?


17 posted on 09/13/2024 6:18:34 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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