Wow, I must have hit a nerve cause this kind of ad hominem arguing that you're doing is unusual for HN. People saying the NSA was working with hardware vendors

Wow, I must have hit a nerve cause this kind of ad hominem arguing that you're doing is unusual for HN. People saying the NSA was working with hardware vendors to purposefully insert backdoors in routers were called crazy too before the Snowden leaks. I guess you haven't been keeping up with the news or do you think the Snowden leaks qualify as baseless conspiracy theories? "A 2012 TAO budget document claims that these companies, on TAO's behest, "insert vulnerabilities into commercial encryption systems, IT systems, networks and endpoint communications devices used by targets".[1] [1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tailored_Access_Operations https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tailored_Access_Operations