- Feb 7, 2014
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The computer security arena is now so profitable — with customers so gullible and reporters so eager — that it shouldn’t surprise us to find criminal activities going on within the industry itself…
Dirty Little Secret #1 The Beginning
From 1993 to 2002 a vicious story played out that consisted of a conspiracy among antivirus vendors to arm China with viruses. Their goal: to pave governmental inroads to China’s growing corporate market for PCs and software. Officials in Beijing received up to 30,000 unique virus samples, detailed source code, and reverse-engineering notes. These insiders also admitted they purposely kept U.S. federal officials in the dark. McAfee, Symantec, and TrendMicro were the key players– all of it done while those companies advised the White House and the FBI on global cyber-threats. Richard Clarke, then a senior White House staffer, was so oblivious to it that he offered to give “STU-III” secure telephones to antivirus vendors so they could talk freely & openly with each other.
MORE: THE CHINA SYNDROME FROM VMYTH.COM
Dirty Little Secret #1 The Beginning
From 1993 to 2002 a vicious story played out that consisted of a conspiracy among antivirus vendors to arm China with viruses. Their goal: to pave governmental inroads to China’s growing corporate market for PCs and software. Officials in Beijing received up to 30,000 unique virus samples, detailed source code, and reverse-engineering notes. These insiders also admitted they purposely kept U.S. federal officials in the dark. McAfee, Symantec, and TrendMicro were the key players– all of it done while those companies advised the White House and the FBI on global cyber-threats. Richard Clarke, then a senior White House staffer, was so oblivious to it that he offered to give “STU-III” secure telephones to antivirus vendors so they could talk freely & openly with each other.
MORE: THE CHINA SYNDROME FROM VMYTH.COM
