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> The only* backdoors ever found in hardware were found in hardware build by US-based companies. What was the backdoor, can you provide a link?
by pimlottc 12y ago
> The only* backdoors ever found in hardware were found in hardware build by US-based companies.
What was the backdoor, can you provide a link?
- xenophonf 12y agoNo one's absolutely certain, but the following article makes a pretty good case for Crypto AG: https://web.archive.org/web/20080101082631/http://www.inteldaily.com/?c=169&a=4686 https://web.archive.org/web/20080101082631/http://www.inteld... Edited to add: I tried chasing down a few of the links mentioned in the comments of https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/01/nsa_backdoors_i.html https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/01/nsa_backdoors..., but I hit some dead ends and lack time to give you further detail. Sorry about that. As far as I can tell, the original report comes from Der Spiegel.
- kbart 12y agoAnother one: http://www.infoworld.com/article/2608141/internet-privacy/snowden--the-nsa-planted-backdoors-in-cisco-products.html http://www.infoworld.com/article/2608141/internet-privacy/sn...