SpicyBrownMustard writes “An FBI PowerPoint presentation provides details about a criminal investigation into counterfeit CISCO hardware originating from China, and sold by Gold/Silver partners to numerous US government, military, and intelligence agencies. The concern of the article’s author and the FBI is that the counterfeit equipment might be state-sponsored to aid in accessing otherwise secure systems (slides 46+47). Says the article author: ‘The threat is real. Compromised hardware of potentially hostile foreign origin sits within secure networks of the US government, military, and intelligence services. And as you now see, the FBI has been concerned about it.’” We’ve mentioned the seizure of some of this equipment before, but this presentation adds quite a bit of detail, and highlights the FBI’s concern of Chinese government involvement.

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