For the fifth time recently we have a press article about Chinese hardware being a risk to people outside of China. This particlular one is in the Wall Street Journal and talks about security cameras being used in sensitive locations. Most of them are made in China by state-run entities which could certainly take advantage of their placement to get sensitive information. I doubt that anyone is going to be moved by this kind of thing. Security cameras are not the things we should be worried about; network equipment is more important.
You can hardly find a laptop, home computer, router, hard disk, or USB drive that is not made in China. Security cameras are the least of my worries, and I’m sure mine are made in China too. My alarm system is too. Our real problem is chips for all these devices which are fabricated in China. I have had two posts on this previously [hijacking flaw in some Intel chipsets] and having the flaws in Intel Chips discovered after seven years has caused me some concern. Imagine thousands of devices, all over the world, made with backdoors in that can give the Chinese access. We need to make our own chips under US control and build our devices here too, especially for sensitive applications like our military and critical infrastructure. We might actually be too late for that if the Intel case is any indication.
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