Chinese firm hawking eavesdropping systems.

• Position: SECURITY BEAT

* The state-owned Chinese electronics giant CETC International Co. Ltd. wants to break into the homeland security market with a variety of products that only Big Brother could love.

At the recent IDEX conference in Abu Dhabi, the firm was selling many recognizable items--everything from roadside bomb jamming devices to airport trace explosive detectors.

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But the CETC catalog distributed at the conference touted wares that veered into the "public security" realm, such as the WIS-30 wireless interception system that is "specifically designed for law enforcement, military, and government personnel and agencies to intercept, record, decode, analyze and exploit ... wireless Internet traffic."

The telephone voice recording system "can intercept and record voice signals being transmitted on various telephone lines." Not only can the wiretapping device be used...