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Counterfeit Cisco gear ended up in US military bases, used in combat operations (arstechnica.com)
submitted 6 months ago by jeffw to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

I'm sorry, but such things happen in countries with no preference to small businesses and veterans etc.

I'm almost confident that somebody involved in choosing that supplier got a cut.

After all, US military budget is so ridiculously big that not having such kinds of corruption would be weird.