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Richard Clarke Has another disturbing prediction for America.
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Clarke, like the rest of the world, knows China is sending compromised electronics to the U.S. by the boatload, to be used in military vehicles from submarines to fighter jets, and that many of them are poor quality, counterfeit, and worthless, but he thinks they hold another secret.
He believes the Chinese, already known for their industrial espionage, and electronic subterfuge, have built "logic bombs," "Trojan horses," and trapdoors into all manner of electronic components that could be activated at a moments notice, sending a digital apocalypse to the U.S. military with a few simple keystrokes.
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China writes the book on corporate espionage, and if the U.S. is foolish enough to create weapons it could use against the PRC with Chinese made electronics, then who would be the bigger fool: the U.S. for buying them, or the Chinese for not building-in a solution to neutralize its adversary?
GeorgeGist
(25,321 posts)must have new shiny fear.
Arkana
(24,347 posts)This sounds like the plot to a shitty Tom Clancy novel.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)bemildred
(90,061 posts)global1
(25,252 posts)bring back all manufacturing back to the U.S.A.?
truebrit71
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Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)onethatcares
(16,172 posts)take a look at the defence budget, it sure don't look like they do dollar store shopping.
Rex
(65,616 posts)of what the actual value would be. Like back in the 80s when Reagan was spending 400 dollars per hammer for the MIC.