Comment The reason why Chinese gov turned to Linux (Score 1) 169
Security, that's all.
A year ago there was one article written by a former Cisco-China employee. Basically he had a 3 month business trip to Cisco HQ in CA for a project, during that trip he noticed there were a special mystious group of people work in Cisco, who use special badges. Out of curiousity he asked his Taiwan friend who they were and he was told that those people were from Pentagon and their job was to plant code in chips that routers use so they can be controlled by special sequence of packets. He was shocked and after he went back to China he sent an email to president of Cisco china, unfortunately he was told to keep his mouth shut, then he quit his job and post that article on Internet.
I am sure Pentagon has people work in Microsoft and trust a foreign company to build the fundation of a nation's security system is just insane.
We all know that Pentagon monitors our communications all the time. what would be more efficent than back door in your router and OS?
go figure.
A year ago there was one article written by a former Cisco-China employee. Basically he had a 3 month business trip to Cisco HQ in CA for a project, during that trip he noticed there were a special mystious group of people work in Cisco, who use special badges. Out of curiousity he asked his Taiwan friend who they were and he was told that those people were from Pentagon and their job was to plant code in chips that routers use so they can be controlled by special sequence of packets. He was shocked and after he went back to China he sent an email to president of Cisco china, unfortunately he was told to keep his mouth shut, then he quit his job and post that article on Internet.
I am sure Pentagon has people work in Microsoft and trust a foreign company to build the fundation of a nation's security system is just insane.
We all know that Pentagon monitors our communications all the time. what would be more efficent than back door in your router and OS?
go figure.
