> It seems like they could manufacture clean devices to send to a test centre and then back door ones they release in the wild. Glenn Greenwald already went ov

> It seems like they could manufacture clean devices to send to a test centre and then back door ones they release in the wild. Glenn Greenwald already went over how the US did this, which is to intercept the devices in transit. That way the backdoors wouldn't be there for general IT personnel or reviewers or state security agents, but they would be there for the targets. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/may/12/glenn-greenwald-nsa-tampers-us-internet-routers-snowden https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/may/12/glenn-greenwal...