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Chinese Microchips Are Considered Impossible To Regulate
Article continued @ Aviation WeekChinese Microchips Are Considered Impossible To Regulate
By David Fulghum, Bill Sweetman, Jen DiMascio
Source: Aviation Week & Space Technology
June 04, 2012
The potential for specialized microchips from China to find their way into U.S. computers and networks, or even into conventional Western weapons systems, isn't just a frightening prospect—it's a chilling reality.
The defense industry supply chain is rife with counterfeit parts, and efforts to police it are failing. The potential that these parts could compromise the quality of U.S.-made defense systems is bad enough, but on top of that Chinese components could offer a back door to cybersnoops, escalating the threat of cyberspying and intellectual theft.
The U.S. knows about the potential of such capabilities because it is conducting its own research in that rarified arena of cybercombat. Draper Laboratory, for example, has a long-running project to design ways of planting hostile circuitry inside what appear to be standard microchips. This could easily become—or may already be—a two-way street, since many avionics and military systems now include generic and commercial off-the-shelf chips built into custom processor boards.
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Impossible does not mean "its too much work and we'd much rather have our monies in return for national security on the line, kthx"
Whatever happened to traceability?
Lowest bidders winning contracts and pushing production costs down to increase profits. Capitalism in it's finest form.Originally Posted by C.Puffs
Still, at least for military stuff, I thought everything had to have traceability. (I know the stuff I work on damn near has paperwork all the way back to the patch of dirt the material came out of.)
Ok so what is your point.
he already made his point
Military matters should never be regarded as normal business. IE lowest bidders don't make the safest choices. Competing Paradigms between Cost and Safety. Has been the Number One issue for Defense since forever.
Defense contractors are capitalists.
As I said, since Persians hiring Greeks to fight other Greeks military shopping lists should involve as little foreign input as possible. Making the market work for you is OK as far as you control the sources.
Blaming capitalism, but no one answering or beginning to theories answers as to why its impossible to track or WHO is making these dicesions. dont give me an antire company. i want individual names.
wot?.......anyways ignoring the role profiteering plays in this particular issue won't get us anywhere.
I never typed that. don't misquote me.
I'm saying, Capitalism has nothing to do with it. This happens in communism as well. Profiteering can exist in any economic model.
I'm saying quit blaming capitalism, blame the person responsible. Don't say the entire company, there are specific individuals that allow this to happen. Individuals that allow for the sources form china to be riddled with back doors. and are completely aware.
LOL...I think you are the one miss quoting me....how can I miss quote you when I can't tell what you are saying, hence the "wot?" in my reply.
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