Florida Woman Busted for Selling Millions Worth of Phony Computer Chips to the Military [Scams]

Stephanie McCloskey is in about as much processor-related trouble as you may get, having netted major bucks by selling counterfeit chips to the military . The Chinese fakes were so shoddy that her company had to scrub them off with erasers.

The military often frets that Chinese components aren’t up to snuff-or worse, may need hardware backdoors inbuilt, taking into consideration sabotage. However looks like these chips were mostly just pieces of crap-as mentioned, they arrived inside the US covered in dirt and grime. Crap or no crap, Stephanie faces up to five years and prison and a $250,000 fine for her hardware trickery. Oh, and he or she’s going to come her $166,000 salary, which still style of looks like peanuts, given her counterfeit operation netted $15.9 million. [ The Register ]

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