> Even without them, NSA can intercept the hardware and put their software on those boxes. Its interesting to note that not many people remember (maybe a gener

> Even without them, NSA can intercept the hardware and put their software on those boxes. Its interesting to note that not many people remember (maybe a generational thing?) Kevin Poulsen found multiple government listening devices installed on Pac Bell networks that were listening to foreign embassy phone traffic which was highly illegal at the time. It doesn't surprise me the extent the NSA and other three letter agencies have gone to get at information they deem valuable or important.