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I can think of another three letter agency that might very well have suggested this new "security measure" be implemented. /tinfoilhat

• plaguuuuuu 11y ago
  To be fair, you're talking about an agency that provably intercepted deliveries of Cisco hardware and installed backdoors in them. I don't think it's particularly far fetched.
  • JoshTriplett 11y ago
    > To be fair, you're talking about an agency that provably intercepted deliveries of Cisco hardware and installed backdoors in them. I'm unsurprised, but do you have a link for that? I'd like to read more about it.
    • GigabyteCoin 11y ago
      http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/photos-of-an-nsa-upgrade-factory-show-cisco-router-getting-implant/ http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/photos-of-an-nsa-...
    • MichaelApproved 11y ago
      http://www.engadget.com/2014/05/16/nsa-bugged-cisco-routers/ http://www.engadget.com/2014/05/16/nsa-bugged-cisco-routers/ More here https://www.google.com/search?q=intercept+cisco+routers&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8 https://www.google.com/search?q=intercept+cisco+routers&ie=u...
    • abrichr 11y ago
      HN submission from 440 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7737648 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7737648