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The US Authorities remember when they did it to fax machines in Eastern Europe.
by tharmas 2y ago
The US Authorities remember when they did it to fax machines in Eastern Europe.
- oefrha 2y agoNSA has been “SIGINT-enabling” router chips for a long time according to Snowden documents. Discussed last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37570407 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37570407 There’s also that famous photo of NSA “upgrading” Cisco routers, of course. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/photos-of-an-nsa-upgrade-factory-show-cisco-router-getting-implant/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/photos-of-an-nsa...
- tastyfreeze 2y agoExactly. Remembering that our own NSA has intentionally compromised devices makes all of the "ban China" calls sound like jealousy.
- oefrha 2y agoMore like “we know we’re doing this, so they’re likely doing it as well”. Makes sense.