French Spy Satellites Being Sold to the UAE Reportedly Include "Compromising" US Components
Qu'est-ce que c'est?
Who says the U.S. doesn't manufacture anything anymore? Some American components may have made their way into spy satellites from France.
From Defense News:
A United Arab Emirates (UAE) deal to purchase two intelligence satellites from France worth almost 3.4 billion dirhams (US $930 million) is in jeopardy after the discovery of what was described as "security compromising components."
A high-level UAE source said the two high-resolution Pleiades-type Falcon Eye military observation satellites contained two specific US-supplied components that provide a back door to the highly secure data transmitted to the ground station.
The deal between the UAE and France was signed in July, for delivery in 2018. Defense News' source says the UAE has asked the compromising components be replaced and may involve Russian and Chinese firms in the future.
What might the UAE need spy satellites for? Maybe to catch more parodists.
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Clipper Chip strikes again!
What might the UAE need spy satellites for? Maybe to catch more parodists.
With an attitude like this it’s little wonder why people think that we libertarian want the parodists to win.
Don’t we?
Don’t sass me!
What might the UAE need spy satellites for?
You don’t wanna go topless sunbathing with one of them Islamist spy-cams above your head.
There aren’t any design flaws. How it ended up in a Emirate bird in the middle of the war on terror — that’s the only flaw I see. How did that happen, Ed?
The Reason Foundation should buy its own spy satellite and park it over DC.
Or open one on Conn. Ave.
Park it, eh?
In orbit. I’m not suggesting any sort of violence.
No mention of the French compromising technology? They got into the government sponsored industrial espionage business before de Galle and announced it to anybody who had long stopped paying attention in the 1990s.
“may involve Russian and Chinese firms in the future.”
I think we can trust the Russians and Chinese.
So the UAE is worried that the US will find out who they are taking pictures of because?
Just because.
Because its non of the US’ business who they’re taking pictures of.
Do you think that *we* shouldn’t complain about the NSA sticking its nose in places it doesn’t belong either?
CES 2014: Qualcomm CEO on NSA — “We Can’t Comment on That”
As a top U.S. telecommunications and hardware player, Qualcomm’s silence is somewhat disturbing
Backdoor in wireless DSL routers lets attacker reset router, get admin
Probes Against Linksys Backdoor Port Surging
The alleged backdoor was disclosed in a Github post by a hacker Eloi Vanderbeken of France. He uploaded a PowerPoint presentation to Github describing the backdoor he found not only in five different Linksys DSL modem/routers, but also in a number of Netgear, Cisco and SerComm home and business boxes.
(it’s the same backdoor on port 32764/TCP across these Netgear, Linksys, Cisco, SerComm devices)
Test script and known list is here:
https://github.com/elvanderb/TCP-32764
Who says the U.S. doesn’t manufacture anything anymore?
This always cracks me up. We made about 2 million car and truck axles just at my plant last year. We’ll make about the same this year. About 2000 employees. Been open since the 50’s. The transmission plant around the corner makes about the same number of automatic transmissions every year.
That’s just a couple auto parts plants. There are four more just in our neighborhood. Add in all the other US parts plants, plus the OEM’s assembly plants (and let’s not forget US plants of Toyota, Honda, BMW, Mercedes, Hyundai et al in addition to GM/Ford/Fiat…er, Chrysler).
And that’s just the car business. Let’s run down the machine tool business, and then the agricultural/construction implements business, then defense (OOOOO!!!), then guns, then….
Yeah – we still manufacture stuff in the US.
It seems to confuse people – the difference between *how much* we manufacture and *what percentage* manufacturing is of the economy. The latter is decreasing but the former is increasing.
US is doing spy work through UAE’s cost.