This should not be a revelation though. Granted, back when the Internet wasn't so popular, the risk for people like you and me, or for small companies, was rela

This should not be a revelation though. Granted, back when the Internet wasn't so popular, the risk for people like you and me, or for small companies, was relatively low. Partly because the value of Internet-accessible information was relatively low, too -- twenty years ago, if I bought a backdoored home router, all the Evil Guys would get access to would be really bad code snippets and a few folders of porn pics. But the fact that people with access to your infrastructure also had access to your data was more or less well known ever since "the beginning", and it's also why internetworks other than the Internet were a thing for a long time. > And yet, as a whole, we de facto continue to trust in opaque entities that provide valuable yet likely compromised services because it is convenient. Don't forget the scarcity of alternatives though. It takes a lot of money to come up with a credible alternative to Juniper and Cisco. Siphoning personal data is what sells nowadays, not protecting it.