According to reports , the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is threatening to cancel to 3.4 billion dirhams (570 million pounds ) off the purchase of two military satellite image of France over allegations that two components supplied by United States threaten the security of data transmitted between the satellite and the ground station .
While the National Security Agency of the U.S. " (NSA ) is not directly named in the matter, the incident reported by Defense News U.S. based , recalls the concern about allegedly widespread hacking activities of U.S. spy agency , which claimed have included mobile devices and computing as well as cloud-based systems.
High-resolution satellite
The satellite agreement signed in July after the competition for more than a decade , is the supply of military satellites watching two high- resolution Pleiades Falcon Eye type and a ground station and the formation of 20 engineers , the delivery system by 2018. Defence and Space Airbus is providing the satellite platform based Astrobus with Franco-Italian joint venture Thales Alenia Space provides observation and data transmission technology .
Pleiades Space Satellite
The technology is based on the French satellite Pleiades own high resolution Earth - for civil-military joint (pictured ) images, the first of which was put in orbit in 2011, followed by a second in 2012.
The UAE said it discovered that two components supplied by U.S. technology supplied by Thales Alenia always a backdoor on data transmitted by the satellite , and the discovery was reported to the office of deputy commander in September, according to report. The UAE has asked France to change the components and also " consulted " with Russian and Chinese companies , according to the anonymous source of the report in the UAE , although it is unclear what role they could play in Russia or China negotiations .
rear doors
" If this problem is not resolved, the UAE is willing to scrap the whole thing ," the source told Defense News.
The incident could also be a ploy to help the UAE receives a better deal on the Dassault Aviation Rafale fighter , according to a defense specialist based in Paris behalf without cited by Defense News .
Reportedly hacking activities have included the NSA intercept shipments of PC to install surveillance rear doors as well as the use of a catalog of security vulnerabilities to install backdoors on commercial network equipment .
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