PCMag: US Military Duped Into Buying Chinese Cameras Rife With Flaws
According to the Justice Department, New York-based Aventura Technologies has been concealing that its network-connected camera products were made in China while raking in millions through lucrative contracts with the US military and government agencies.
A New York-based company was raided by federal agents on Thursday for allegedly selling insecure, Chinese-made surveillance cameras to the US military.
Since 2006, Aventura Technologies has been concealing that its products were made in China while raking in millions through lucrative contracts with the US government and private businesses, the Justice Department alleged in today's announcement.
Aventura's government customers include the US Army, US Navy, the US Air Force, the Department of Energy, and the Internal Revenue Service, among others. In total, the company pulled in $88 million in revenue since 2010, $20 million of which came from US government contracts that prohibited Aventura from sourcing equipment from China.
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WNU Editor: I suspect there are more companies out there doing the same thing.
3 comments:
The govt will make an example of these people and go for the maximum punishments, unless of course they have information of high value for trading.
This should be worth some jail time. In some countries they would be executed.
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