Former Pentagon analyst: China has backdoors to 80% of telecoms

http://www.zdnet.com/former-pentagon-analyst-china-has-backdoors-to-80-of-telecoms-7000000908/

 

This article reeks of FUD, I did like this tidbit:

China and "APTs" are the trending boogie-men right now.

 

I don't believe this.

 

That puts them about 20% behind the NSA. Personally, I'm less concerned with a chinese back door than a domestic one.

 

I LOL'ed.
Smells like BS to me.
Now that's misinformation at it's highest levels. *Tinfoil Hat*

 

This mirror's Richard Clarke's concerns of China's influence over the production of our popular technology (Fast company reported while only 3% of our tech is produced by China, its almost all of the stuff everyone uses day to day). I can see how it might be a possibility, but i doubt the western govs, let alone western businesses, wouldn't take measures.

 

True or not, but there have been articles in the past about Chinese software & hardware having backdoors. Most recently being the ZTE Android phones.

I generally avoid Chinese software & hardware altogether, just my opinion.

 

IDK why anyone wouldn't believe this. Sounds entirely likely.

 

Backdoored hardware, running spyware operating systems over surveillance friendly networks. Nothing new here.

 

Because "likely" isn't enough.

 

My point is that it isn't unbelievable. If someone from the pentagon said so I wouldn't believe it as fact but I wouldn't have serious doubts about it either.