Well, it’s been pretty obviuos for a while now that China’s been hacking into some of America’s most important businesses and government agencies and stealing reams of data. We’ve heard countless reports about Pentagon info being stolen orabout critical data on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter being plucked from defense contractors networks — with China being the main suspect.

Well, former U.S. counter-terrorism czar –currently running his own cybersecurity firm — Richard Clarke is coming out and saying that all electronics made in China may well have built-in trapdoors allowing Chinese malware to infect American systems on command. The malware could do everything from take over a device to disabling it to secretly siphoning information off of it.

Just remember, plenty of military electronics parts are sourced from China too. U.S.-based defense contractors routinely buy things like processors and circuit boards — that end up on the Pentagon’s most advanced weapons, everything from fighter jets to nuclear submarines — from brokers who get such parts in China. As you know, these parts often prove fake, something that’s dangerous enough due to the high risk of a fake part failing. What’s to stop real parts made in China from carrying an equally dangerous cyber trapdoor?

http://defensetech.org/2012/03/29/richar...-infected/

so, there is a listening bug inside my made in China blender?

Lifelong political hack.

Zero time in the semi industry.

Another Beltway self-promoting moran - this does not mean that planting stuff in micros is impossible, merely that he is making BS statements for self-hype. Look at meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.


Guys like this pick & choose from the crap consultants gin up (invariably to generate more work)

so, there is a listening bug inside my made in China blender?

LoP Guest  Wrote:

so, there is a listening bug inside my made in China blender?

If there is, it will expire along with the rest of the blender 2 days after the warranty is up.

Cheap is king, and nobody does cheap like China.

LoP Guest  Wrote:

LoP Guest  Wrote:

so, there is a listening bug inside my made in China blender?

If there is, it will expire along with the rest of the blender 2 days after the warranty is up.

Cheap is king, and nobody does cheap like China.

About a month after the warranty timer chip pops a capacitor.

Luvapottamus  Wrote:

LoP Guest  Wrote:

If there is, it will expire along with the rest of the blender 2 days after the warranty is up.

Cheap is king, and nobody does cheap like China.

About a month after the warranty timer chip pops a capacitor.

It may seem like that - in fact you can pretty easily calculate the life expectancy of electronics. Engineering groups are told to make the cheapest that meets spec, not something reliable. Just do the bare minimum. Keep customers buying the same crap over and over again (and they do!)

Wasn't always that way. Started back in the 60's when business schools started churning out efficiency experts. Took them a half century, but they finally drove nearly every US Manufacturing facility out of business. Wall Street and Big 8 (now less, lol) Consulting firms made a killing. Top tier of Management got their gold 'chutes. Sockholders got a few % ROI. Employees got the shaft. Communities were annihilated.

Luvapottamus  Wrote:

LoP Guest  Wrote:

If there is, it will expire along with the rest of the blender 2 days after the warranty is up.

Cheap is king, and nobody does cheap like China.

About a month after the warranty timer chip pops a capacitor.

It may seem like that - in fact you can pretty easily calculate the life expectancy of electronics. Engineering groups are told to make the cheapest that meets spec, not something reliable. Just do the bare minimum. Keep customers buying the same crap over and over again (and they do!)

Wasn't always that way. Started back in the 60's when business schools started churning out efficiency experts. Took them a half century, but they finally drove nearly every US Manufacturing facility out of business. Wall Street and Big 8 (now less, lol) Consulting firms made a killing. Top tier of Management got their gold 'chutes. Sockholders got a few % ROI. Employees got the shaft. Communities were annihilated.

True.

Now what did you put in our cell phones!

LoP Guest  Wrote:

Luvapottamus  Wrote:

About a month after the warranty timer chip pops a capacitor.

It may seem like that - in fact you can pretty easily calculate the life expectancy of electronics. Engineering groups are told to make the cheapest that meets spec, not something reliable. Just do the bare minimum. Keep customers buying the same crap over and over again (and they do!)

Wasn't always that way. Started back in the 60's when business schools started churning out efficiency experts. Took them a half century, but they finally drove nearly every US Manufacturing facility out of business. Wall Street and Big 8 (now less, lol) Consulting firms made a killing. Top tier of Management got their gold 'chutes. Sockholders got a few % ROI. Employees got the shaft. Communities were annihilated.

When I was an electronic technician about 25 years ago I used to test prototype electronics to failure before sending a few to UL (those guys test to DESTRUCTION; to look for failures which may be a safety hazard -think FIRE, lol) .

As an electronic engineering tech I connected temperature probes to every electronic component of the test device and fired it up and recorded the temperature -looks pretty hairy when you have like 400 wires snaking out the external case, lol.

From this data the engineer who designed the device can determine the MTBF (mean time between failure) of said device. It was common back in the day to discard the data for the first 30 -90 days of operation of said device, as the odds of an "infant Failure" would skew the MTBF data set.


Thats a primary reason a lot of consumer electronic products only have a 30-90 day warranty-after this period of time it is much more likely the device will survive its target MTBF failure rate.


I seriously doubt they do this in china. Merely an observation.