Security → China shipping rigged computers to steal American secrets

The new form of malware. Infected before you even buy it!

»technolog.msnbc.msn.com/ ··· -country

»www.youtube.com/watch?v= ··· d#at=128

the occasional digital photo frames have been found to be infected and the infection multiplys to any connection to them.

sony and yet another rootkit infection, , for security , ,maybe. august 2007
»www.networkworld.com/new ··· its.html
"This isn't the same code, recycled," said Mikko Hypponen, F-Secure's chief research officer, in a telephone interview Monday. "Sony doesn't do any of its own development in this area; it looks like a Chinese company did it. But the similarities lie in the fact that, like the Sony BMG rootkit, this software uses a hidden folder and hides files in it."

there was rumors that Israel put Stuxnet on to 'electronics components' that they make and then allowed Iran to purchase them from the black market, in order to commit cyber war against Iran.
»secure.wikimedia.org/wik ··· /Stuxnet
»www.dailytech.com/Israel ··· 9726.htm

man in the middle attacks could change code on the fly and give the computers connected to it a virus instead of the particular download or system update requested.

just one more reason to build your own.

Holy crap!

These guys are having the same conversation about the problem they were having four years ago! It's like they are just now discovering the problem and assigning a committee to study it. Same room, same suits, same talk.

"Teams to examine the issues and develop strategies" What???
"The beginning of a conversation with the private sector" ARRRGH!

As Yogi put it so well, "This is like déjà vu all over again"!

Unless you have the facilities to design and build motherboards, optical drives, etc., the parts that you will be using to build your own PC will all have come from overseas.

here is a link to a related story that was posted earlier:

»www.businessinsider.com/ ··· QfhXjEYD

Be sure to use Chinese chipsets, too.

This country is so deeply engrossed with China (in manufacturing since stockholders in this country just care about their pocket books) and the US loans to China that by the end of the Decade China will own USA if the don't already. Anybody that can do anything about it cares to see through all that. Wake up!

Personally, I look forward to serving our new Chinese Overlords. Perhaps we will find clarity as we stare into the inscrutable gaze of our new masters. Besides, what could possibly be more exciting than becoming part of the mysteries of the Orient?

(...just kidding of course...)

When will we finally start outsourcing not only production (facilities, design, know-how, etc), but CEO's (who did it) themselves?

Starting with the WH and Congress -- both parties.