>There is zero evidence in the public domain to support the hysterical allegations of the crazy folks in our domestic military-industrial-espionage complex. Ke

>There is zero evidence in the public domain to support the hysterical allegations of the crazy folks in our domestic military-industrial-espionage complex. Key phrase "in the public domain". As someone with access to info that is NOT in the public domain.......every organization basically has one of two choices: either your data ends up on an NSA server, or your data ends up on a server in China. Which you choose largely depends on your government's politics and which superpower they are currying favor with. Reasons factory-installed backdoors could NOT negatively impact business: -customers that aren't tech-savvy enough to notice -customers that feel data security isn't important -customers who are too cheap for more expensive alternatives (overlaps with the last category) -customers who have an antagonistic relationship with the US, so Chinese backdoors are "more secure" than US backdoors by default I think you'd be surprised how many people, globally, fall in those above categories. But major UK telecom companies certainly don't.