Re: DHS Admits Knowledge of Infected Import Tech

Label your article, "The Other Big Brother".
Starts like this,

$preface = "
Worried about Obame and his cronies, or Cheney's lackies still in
government. Here is a bigger concern. All our computers and factories
are now overseas. Literally the Chinese make everything for us. Now we
come to find out that they may be the "Big Brother" have all feared
for years - That is ever since "1984".
";

Jesse

On 7/8/11, John Sokol <john.sokol@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is frightening.
>
> http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/07/08/208206/DHS-Admits-Knowledge-of-Infected-Import-Tech
>
> *"Deputy Undersecretary Schaffer of the DHS National Protection and Programs
> Directorate confessed to being aware of foreign technology that had been
> imported with spyware, malware, and other security risks. According to the
> article, 'More worryingly, the hearing specifically mentioned hardware
> components as possibly being
> compromised<http://www.fastcompany.com/1765855/dhs-someones-spiking-our-imported-tech-with-attack-tools>—
> which raises the questions of whether, perhaps, something as innocuous
> as
> Flash memory or embedded RFID chips could be used by interested foreign
> parties.' These hearings were held on July
> 7th<http://oversight.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1363%3A7-7-11-qcybersecurity-assessing-the-nations-ability-to-address-the-growing-cyber-threatq&catid=12&Itemid=20>to
> 'examine the nature and extent of the current threat to America's
> infrastructure.'"*
>