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It's a fact that NSA solicits companies to add security weaknesses to their products. They'll "make an offer you can't refuse" by offering cash (in the form of
by anonymousiam 3y ago
It's a fact that NSA solicits companies to add security weaknesses to their products. They'll "make an offer you can't refuse" by offering cash (in the form of a contract), and they'll use their influence with other "contractors" and government agencies to punish companies that don't participate.
This is not unique to NSA. Security agencies within other governments play the same games with supply chains.
- charcircuit 3y agoIntel making their products insecure is bad for their brand and bad for world wide computer security. Massive amounts of damage could happen by abusing such a backdoor. There is plenty of evidence of Intel claiming that there are no backdoors in their products, but there isn't for some NSA deal for adding a backdoor.
- nailer 3y agoPardon? Snowden showed huge amounts of NSA backdoors. It’s probably worth limiting the conversation to what they don’t have access to rather than trying to enumerate what they do have access to.