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Thursday, November 07, 2019 9:37:20 PM
A Military Camera Said ‘Made in U.S.A.’ The Screen Was in Chinese.
"The Next Russian Attack Will Be Far Worse than Bots and Trolls"
The surveillance equipment was actually manufactured in China, raising concerns that Beijing could have used it for spying, prosecutors said.
Richard P. Donoghue, the United States attorney in Brooklyn, discussing the charges against the Long Island firm Aventura.
Mark Lennihan/Associated Press
By Nicole Hong
Nov. 7, 2019, 6:11 p.m. ET
The surveillance cameras and other equipment that Aventura Technologies sold for years to the United States military looked like solid American products, packaged in boxes with “Made in the U.S.A.” labels and stars-and-stripes logos.
The items were installed throughout government agencies, including on aircraft carriers and a Department of Energy facility. Then last year, a service member on an Air Force base noticed that an Aventura body camera displayed Chinese characters on the screen.
On Thursday, federal prosecutors in Brooklyn said that the equipment had actually been made in China and was vulnerable to hacking, raising the possibility that American government agencies had installed software in their security networks that could be used for spying by China.
In a 40-page complaint, prosecutors unsealed criminal charges against Aventura, of Commack, N.Y., and seven of its current and former employees. The defendants were accused of lying to their American customers for more than a decade about the Chinese origins of the company’s products.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/07/nyregion/aventura-china-cameras.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
"The Next Russian Attack Will Be Far Worse than Bots and Trolls"
The surveillance equipment was actually manufactured in China, raising concerns that Beijing could have used it for spying, prosecutors said.
Richard P. Donoghue, the United States attorney in Brooklyn, discussing the charges against the Long Island firm Aventura.
Mark Lennihan/Associated Press
By Nicole Hong
Nov. 7, 2019, 6:11 p.m. ET
The surveillance cameras and other equipment that Aventura Technologies sold for years to the United States military looked like solid American products, packaged in boxes with “Made in the U.S.A.” labels and stars-and-stripes logos.
The items were installed throughout government agencies, including on aircraft carriers and a Department of Energy facility. Then last year, a service member on an Air Force base noticed that an Aventura body camera displayed Chinese characters on the screen.
On Thursday, federal prosecutors in Brooklyn said that the equipment had actually been made in China and was vulnerable to hacking, raising the possibility that American government agencies had installed software in their security networks that could be used for spying by China.
In a 40-page complaint, prosecutors unsealed criminal charges against Aventura, of Commack, N.Y., and seven of its current and former employees. The defendants were accused of lying to their American customers for more than a decade about the Chinese origins of the company’s products.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/07/nyregion/aventura-china-cameras.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
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