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But they could easily have agreements with every chip fab to build back doors into every piece of networking equipment.
by ojbyrne 13y ago
But they could easily have agreements with every chip fab to build back doors into every piece of networking equipment.
- babesh 13y agoSo can the US.
- ekianjo 13y agoThat's very unlikely nobody would have noticed them by now, if it were the case.
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- bhrgunatha 13y agoDo you mean - as unlikely as not spotting the weakening of encryption standards - for example by another branch of the same government (NIST/NSA)?
- Wingman4l7 13y agoThis is exactly why Australia is very leery of letting the Chinese telecom hardware manufacturer Huawei have any of the contracts for networking hardware on the nascent National Broadband Network -- they are suspected of having ties to the Chinese government / army: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huawei#Security_concerns https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huawei#Security_concerns
- w_t_payne 13y agoMy sister in law works for Huawei in Kenya. Her job (so far) has largely involved ripping out Siemens made mobile-telephony infrastructure and replacing it with Huawei-made mobile-telephony infrastructure. Such are today's instruments of empire.
- nl 13y agoYou can packet-trace networking equipment you own. You can't packet-trace a cloned switch port you don't know about.