SpicyBrownMustard writes "An FBI PowerPoint launch provides details about a criminal examination into counterfeit CISCO appliances originating from China, and sold by Gold/Silver partners to numerous US government, military, and intelligence agencies. The concern of the article's author and the FBI is that the counterfeit equipment may be state-sponsored to aid in accessing elseways secure systems (slides 46+47). Says the article author: 'The threat is real. Compromised fittings of potentially hostile foreign origin sits within secure natural diction processing of the US government, military, and intelligence services. And as you now see, the FBI has been concerned about it.'" We've be conspicuous the seizure of some of this equipment before, but this exposition adds quite a bit of detail, and highlights the FBI's concern of Chinese sovereignty involvement.

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