Velatel Global Comm. (fka VELA)

[LongTimeObserver]

A bit more on the topic of security.

"Not Surprised: Former Pentagon Official Says All Chinese Electronics In The US Could Have Built-In Trapdoors"

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“Richard Clarke Has another disturbing prediction for America.

Clarke worked with four White House administrations during 30 years of government service before opening his own cybersecurity firm in the corridors of Arlington, Va outside the nation’s capital.

He was at the State Department, the Department of Defense, has a master’s Degree from MIT and was the Bush counter-terrorism guy who told the White House that al Qaeda was plotting a grand attack on American soil in the weeks leading up to 9/11.

After the attack, Clarke sat before the 9/11 commission and told them directly: “Your government failed you.”

Clarke recently spoke to Ron Rosenbaum at Smithsonian Magazine and told him the government is slipping up again, that while we now have the ability to coordinate a successful cyberwar, like slipping the Stuxnet virus into Iran’s nuclear system, the U.S. has absolutely no cyber defenses.

Which is a bad thing for a superpower that gets the lionshare of its electronic components, both civilian and military from China, one of its biggest global adversaries….”