fishdan's Journal: Conterfiet Hardware

With the love most /.ers have of sites like Pricewatch, Froogle, TechBargains and others of their ilk, there is a caveat emptor that people need to be aware of. According to PC World, more and more counterfeit hardware is coming to market each year. From the article:

...batteries aren't the only tech item that counterfeiters love. In October 2004, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials in Anchorage, Alaska, seized 20,000 suspected fake Memorex USB memory key thumb drives from Asia. And last year, Miami officials seized 900 allegedly phony laptops valued at $700,000.

"Maybe it's a laptop, an MP3 player, or a component like a DVD drive--anything in the digital world can be counterfeited," says Therese Randazzo, a U.S. Customs Service counterfeiting expert.