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Originally Posted by zx10guy
Back in 2008, the FBI was investigating counterfeit Cisco product originating from China. The extent of this investigation was wide spread involving many different individuals. The briefing that is linked below was the unclassified presentation given by Section Chief Raul Roldan. This presentation was leaked out to the public before the FBI was ready to execute warrants and arrests. It forced the FBI to move earlier than they wanted.
The issues that were shown in the presentation are parts that look authentic that would fail in significant numbers in a short amount of time. Or the counterfeit parts would cause network issues as these components would all have the same MAC address causing network conflict issues if two of the same counterfeit products were put on the same layer 2 network segment.
I have worked in IT for a long time. Used to do lots of Cisco routers/firewalls deployments during that time period. The pictures the FBI presented on what a counterfeit WIC-1DSU-T1 card looked like compared to an authentic card was mind blowing. I've handled tons of those cards and I wouldn't have notice the subtle differences. This issue goes beyond lost Cisco profits as many of these devices were deployed in mission critical systems. These parts somehow found their way into legitimate supply chain sources so even buying from a reputable reseller such as CDW didn't guarantee you were safe. All these parts were manufactured in Chinese plants for Cisco. These issues caused a big push to have manufacturers of IT systems to have better supply chain that can be [...]
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In Australia BYD were found to have a hidden SIM that could listen to you with no indication that it was doing so.
There’s a good documentary about them on YouTube. Massive losses, subsidised heavily by their government that allows overseas market stuffing and very low prices. Loads of them down sold down here. Interesting business practice but it certainly works. Appliance buyers don’t care. They get something new and shiny for cheap.