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The NSA routinely receives – or intercepts – routers, servers, and other computer network devices being exported from the US before they are delivered to the in
by osivertsson 12y ago
The NSA routinely receives – or intercepts – routers, servers, and other computer network devices being exported from the US before they are delivered to the international customers.
So not only routers.
- chippy 12y agoSo that means that if you buy and use the router in the USA, your router will be clean, but if the routers get shipped overseas they are corrupted?
- wmf 12y agoIt's not all overseas hardware; it's probably just a few targeted customers. This has been going on since the cold war.
- fixermark 12y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberian_pipeline_sabotage http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberian_pipeline_sabotage
- Theodores 12y agoSpeculative hearsay with no hard evidence.
- fixermark 12y agoWhat's your source? Mine is the CIA. "Contrived computer chips found their way into Soviet military equipment, flawed turbines were installed on a gas pipeline, and defective plans disrupted the output of chemical plants and a tractor factory." ~ https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/kent-csi/vol39no5/pdf/v39i5a14p.pdf https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intellig...
- joshstrange 12y agoWell being inside the USA doesn't protect you from receiving modified equipment, it has been reported that the NSA will, for certain "Persons of interest", intercept hardware in transit and compromise it.