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发帖数: 1061 | 1 The Navy Bought Fake Chinese Microchips That Could Have Disarmed U.S.
Missiles
Last year, the U.S. Navy bought 59,000 microchips for use in everything from
missiles to transponders and all of them turned out to be counterfeits from
China.
Wired reports the chips weren't only low-quality fakes, they had been made
with a "back-door" and could have been remotely shut down at any time.
If left undiscovered the result could have rendered useless U.S. missiles
and killed the signal from aircraft that tells everyone whether it's friend
or foe.
Apparently foreign chip makers are often better at making cheap microchips
and U.S. defense contractors are loathe to pass up the better deal.
The problem remains with these "trojan-horse" circuits that can be built
into the chip and are almost impossible to detect -- especially without the
original plans to compare them to.
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency (IARPA) is now looking
for ways to check the chips to make sure they haven't been hacked in the
production process.
Expect to see a whole lot more funding directed to this goal. Or,
considering IARPA is the research and development section of the
intelligence community -- expect the money to be spent -- don't expect to
see where. |
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