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>repackages the devices with a factory seal. But perhaps with the covert assistance of the factory?
by chippy 12y ago
>repackages the devices with a factory seal.
But perhaps with the covert assistance of the factory?
- rhizome 12y agoOr the company who prints the seals
- us0r 12y agoOr the seal maker?
- forgottenpass 12y agoTamper evident only provides evidence of a home user that hasn't spent time learning how to evade them. You don't need the means to obtain or produce replica seals, but the NSA also has the money to do exactly that. And that assumes by 'seal' the author even meant to imply something as strong as tamper evident.
- cpeterso 12y agoThe article says 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." The word"receives" suggests that the manufacturer knowingly sends the hardware to the NSA.
- lttlrck 12y agoIf they for some reason had trouble replicating them they could just redirect the seal delivery too...