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There’s a long history of telecom equipment being backdoored by the manufacturer or their national gov. You may recall everyone losing their shit on HN about th
by Spooky23 4y ago
There’s a long history of telecom equipment being backdoored by the manufacturer or their national gov. You may recall everyone losing their shit on HN about the AT&T room in NYC where the fiber trunks were mirrored to a secret NSA room.
Regardless of the whataboutism argument in Internet forums, it’s not in the national interest to give a hostile foreign power the ability to do something like that.
- 737min 4y agoVery well put, esp when the government is known for unapologetic surveillance and repression.
- flumpcakes 4y agoI agree. We should also force western companies to produce their products in the west too if they are needed for national security. A controller or motherboard in a switch or router being manufactured in China can have any number of bugs put in, up to and including making "fake" silicon that is backdoored.