What is the policy on manufacturer installed backdoors on commodity hardware? See https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/11/chinese-company-instal

What is the policy on manufacturer installed backdoors on commodity hardware? See https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/11/chinese-company-installed-secret-backdoor-on-hundreds-of-thousands-of-phones/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/11/chine... for an example. Attempting to rule on this might involve conflict with the NSA, which has a decades long history of getting backdoors into commercial tech. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-security-congress-insight/spy-agency-ducks-questions-about-back-doors-in-tech-products-idUSKBN27D1CS https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-security-congress-ins... says a bit about this. But a lot of our tech is built in China. They're almost certainly doing the same thing, and history shows that those backdoors get discovered then become a source of security holes for the rest of us.