One week ago @POTUS stood up at a meeting of UN Security Council and accused #China of attempting to tamper with US elections. In his speech @realDonaldTrump claimed #China was working to undermine the Republicans, warning that “it’s not just #Russia its #ChinaAndRussia
Most notably, in addition to efforts designed to sway US elections, #China’s intelligence community, orchestrated a pervasive infiltration of servers used to power everything from MRI machines, to the drones used by the #CIA and #Army
Nested on the servers’ motherboards, the testers found a tiny microchip, not much bigger than a grain of rice, not part of the motherboard
Investigators determined that chips allowed the attacker’s to create a stealth doorway into ANY NETWORK that included the altered machines
@VP is expected to state in today’s speech:
“As a senior career memeber of our intelligence community recently told me, what the #Russians are@doing, pales in comparison to what #China is doing across this country” #Elemental#CIA
In espionage circles, #Infiltrating computer hardware, especially to the degree the #Chinese did, is EXTREMELY DIFFICULT to pull off.
“Hardware is just so off the radar, it’s almost treated like black magic” #SupermicroMotherboards #Apple
Both #Amazon and #Apple have denied having knowledge of the infiltration (Amazon acquired #Elemental and integrated it into #AmazonPrime video services) Meanwhile #ChineseGov has issued a conspicuous non-denial denial
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Kamala Harris could have legally intervened, but did not. Inquiring minds want to know why she did not?