Communication devices found on Chinese-made cranes in US ports

Communication devices found on Chinese-made cranes in US ports

“There have been communication devices that have been found on the cranes. They can be remotely controlled,” Alperovitch said. “First of all, for intelligence collection purposes, you can use it to figure out what is going on in a port. And then you might have the ability to actually destroy that infrastructure and prevent logistics, for example, from flowing into the Indo-Pacific if there’s some sort of conflict with China.” The report comes amid an announcement from the Department of Justice revealing a former Army intelligence analyst has been indicted on six counts for sharing confidential information with China, and a former software engineer at Google has been charged with stealing artificial intelligence trade secrets from the company while secretly working with two companies based in China.

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