Counterfeit China Microchips Used In US Defense System
Oct 6, 2008 Gossips, Terrible Stuffs
Nowadays, any possibility that we are able to live without MIC (made in China) products? Or to be exact, counterfeit/poisonous MIC products?
And, we thought US defense system must be damn strict about the equipments, components, parts that to be used? LOL……
The American military faces a growing threat of potentially fatal equipment failure—and even foreign espionage—because of counterfeit computer components used in warplanes, ships, and communication networks. Fake microchips flow from unruly bazaars in rural China to dubious kitchen-table brokers in the U.S. and into complex weapons. Senior Pentagon officials publicly play down the danger, but government documents, as well as interviews with insiders, suggest possible connections between phony parts and breakdowns.
Much of that pollution emanates from the Chinese hinterlands. BusinessWeek tracked counterfeit military components used in gear made by BAE Systems to traders in Shenzhen, China. The traders typically obtain supplies from recycled-chip emporiums such as the Guiyu Electronics Market outside the city of Shantou in southeastern China. The garbage-strewn streets of Guiyu reek of burning plastic as workers in back rooms and open yards strip chips from old PC circuit boards. The components, typically less than an inch long, are cleaned in the nearby Lianjiang River and then sold from the cramped premises of businesses such as Jinlong Electronics Trade Center.
A sign for Jinlong Electronics advertises in Chinese that it sells “military” circuitry, meaning chips that are more durable than commercial components and able to function at extreme temperatures. But proprietor Lu Weilong admits that his wares are counterfeit. His employees sand off the markings on used commercial chips and relabel them as military. Everyone in Guiyu does this, he says: “The dates [on the chips] are 100% fake, because the products pulled off the computer boards are from the ’80s and ’90s, [while] customers demand products from after 2000.”
Tags: counterfeit, made is China, MIC, US
Dr M Calling Samy Vellu “Folly”
Jun 19, 2008 Around the Word, Blogosphere, Gossips, Life
Dr Mahathir seems really angry at Samy Vellu currently. In his latest blogpost, Samy’s Folly, Dr M said that
In sympathising with Hindraf, Samy exposes his deep racist sentiments.
He insisted that he was the only leader of the Indians.
He refused to allow other Indian political parties to join the Barisan Nasional. His arrogance was unbearable. The defeat of the Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC) is entirely because of him.
I will follow this with extracts of what Samy Vellu said when I was Prime Minister. You can then judge what kind of Indian the Indians have as their leader.
It will be interesting how Samy Vellu replies to Dr M.
Seems like there is still FIRE in Dr M……
You Don’t Need IT Experts to Do That, Samy
Jun 2, 2008 Gossips
To “rebut allegations against the party on the Internet”, and to “attend to the complaints through the party’s call centre”, you only needs secondary school or Diploma students who are “hardworking enough”. You don’t need IT experts to answer the phone calls in your call centre, those are helpdesk or operator’s duty. To be more exact, your IT experts don’t solve the problems for you, your party.
By the way, since when a political party becomes a privilege member club?
MIC hires IT experts to tackle online allegations
Tags: IT, Malaysia, Malaysia Issue, MIC, Samy
