TELEPHONE SECURITY CONCERNS

A Chinese company wants to build an essential part of the US telephone system.

We should learn from history. During the Cold War, the US allowed the Soviets to build a new US embassy in Moscow. The US never moved into the embassy because it had so many built in listening devices that it could never be secure. Eventually an embassy was built by sending walls from the US to be assembled under the watchful eye of US security.

Telephone systems are part of civil and military defense. It is DUMB beyond belief that the US would even consider allowing a Communist country to build such a system in the US.

In fact, the request for proposal should include the requirement that all of the components are manufactured in the US under tight security. Complex computer chips can contain hard wired code accessible to the county of manufacture.

BTW, Microsoft has stated that many inexpensive computers from China are shipped with viruses already loaded on them. This means that even if you buy a virus checker, it may miss the virus that came with the counterfeit Windows.