3 October 2008, 5:08 am
The American military faces a growing threat of potentially fatal equipment failure -- and even foreign espionage -- because of counterfeit computer components used in warplanes, ships, and communication networks. Fake microchips flow from unruly bazaars in rural China to dubious kitchen-table brokers in the U.S. and into complex weapons. Senior Pentagon officials publicly play down the danger, ...... read more