According to Richard Clarke—who warned everyone about a 'spectacular' Al Qaeda attack before 9/11—all electronics made in China could contain back doors that would allow Chinese hackers to spy and attack anyone they want.

He claims that these traps may be hidden in every device, from your iPhone and Android phones to every iPad, laptop and computer. Even your TVs or anything else made in China. His claims sound may sound preposterous, but he claims the evidence is strong:

I'm about to say something that people think is an exaggeration, but I think the evidence is pretty strong. Every major company in the United States has already been penetrated by China.

Clarke also believes that Chinese hackers have sneaked into the mainframes of companies like Microsoft, Cisco or Boeing, stealing their research and development secrets. He claims that Chinese companies are using these secrets to leapfrog over their Western competition. This claim is not that crazy: only two years ago Google experienced and denounced such an attack. The Chinese government denied any involvement or wrongdoing.

But perhaps he's really just exaggerating. After all, the MIT graduate and former head of US counterterrorism under Presidents George H.W. Bush, Clinton, and George W. Bush now runs his own cybersecurity company—Good Harbor. He also published a book called Cyber War, in which he details all these threats.

Clarke was very critical with the last Bush administration. He slammed the government during the 9/11 Commission famously claiming that the US government failed the American people.

So who knows. All this could be a way to stir the pot and funnel some pesos into his business. Or, like with 9/11, he may be right.

fuck those gooks, the chinese where trying to fuck the west back in the day and they got the BOXER REBELLION

now the chinks are strong and Europe has become a continent of pussies

America is broke, they chinks will take revenge and fuck us all!!!

Possible but highly unlikely. China is raking way too many US dollars to jeopardize the business relationship it by doing something as stupid as this. If our own CIA spooks caught them it could cost them billions in lost income. There are much slicker ways to spy than bugging consumer electronics devices.

makes a change from Israeli

LTKilling wrote:

fuck those gooks, the chinese where trying to fuck the west back in the day and they got the BOXER REBELLION

now the chinks are strong and Europe has become a continent of pussies

America is broke, they chinks will take revenge and fuck us all!!!

This means the Chinks can see you jerkin off mooron.

The cost alone would be reason enough to say it ain't so.

Lord_Haw_Haw wrote:

makes a change from Israeli

Fuck off back to your shithouse ghost town. Ignorant truther nazi.

The cost alone would be reason enough to say it ain't so.

remember that we deal with the Communists here, they think in different terms...

nothing is too absurd to be real in their world, it is really far from our way of calculation

e.g. if there is a revolution in Egypt the Chinese Commies forbid word "Egypt" on Internet

does it make sense? No. But they seem to fight some absurd battle and do it, even if the hole world is laughing at them

Whatever idiocy plays together with this sick totalitarian ideology I say it's possible.

martsy wrote:

The cost alone would be reason enough to say it ain't so.

remember that we deal with the Communists here, they think in different terms...

nothing is too absurd to be real in their world, it is really far from our way of calculation

e.g. if there is a revolution in Egypt the Chinese Commies forbid word "Egypt" on Internet

does it make sense? No. But they seem to fight some absurd battle and do it, even if the hole world is laughing at them

Whatever idiocy plays together with this sick totalitarian ideology I say it's possible.

The cost would be minimal for an iPhone or Android and most laptops and note books come with a microphone and camera built in. All they would have to do is put something in the BIOS and they are in.

Good that I am using computers which were designed and manufactured in Germany.

Axel_Bavaria wrote:

Good that I am using computers which were designed and manufactured in Germany.

Even your processor and your motherboard ?