U.S. and China: “the empires spin into a full-bore cyber and technology war” as Chinese spyware found on U.S. Network Gear

This ups the cyber-war ante:

“In an exclusive SiliconANGLE interview, a confidential government-affiliated source reports that the top networking gear in the US, from at least four of the major manufacturers of routers and network equipment, has been found in several cases to be infiltrated with Chinese spyware for quite some time. It has been detected in the code that is embedded into drivers, as these networking companies rely on a very small group of Chinese-manufactured components.

A high level source at a major networking company asked not to be named, but privately confirmed these findings. Advanced testing conducted in the investigation has seen trace-marked digital information slip outside the network stream off to its final destination.”