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FBI fears hardware backdoors in US military kit (Say a US fighter jet is flying along and someone...
                   
reddit.com     May 17, 2008            

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation has warned of threats to the US military and critical national infrastructure caused by counterfeit Cisco products. The counterfeit products could open a hardware backdoor into those systems, warned the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), enabling an...


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Buying from the enemy

zdnet.com     May 18, 2008          

The apparent FBI focus on the threat potential in counterfeit gear is at best a useful first step and at worst a serious mistake. Given national government resources and a strong anti-American, anti-western, agenda the same people who might have been using the counterfeits for their own purposes...

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FBI: China may use counterfeit Cisco routers to penetrate U.S. networks...

drudgereport.com     May 16, 2008          

An FBI presentation states that China has counterfeited Cisco Systems network routers and may be using the equipment to penetrate U.S. government and private sector computer networks. Federal authorities in February seized some 400 counterfeit Cisco Systems knockoffs worth $76 million. The...

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FBI: China may use counterfeit Cisco routers to penetrate U.S. networks

freerepublic.com     May 16, 2008          

An FBI presentation states that China has counterfeited Cisco Systems network routers and may be using the equipment to penetrate U.S. government and private sector computer networks. Federal authorities in February seized some 400 counterfeit Cisco Systems knockoffs worth $76 million. The...

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