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NSA 'Upgrade Point' Implants Backdoors on Hardware

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who is the switzerland of tech (Score: 2, Insightful)

by rocks@pipedot.org on 2014-05-16 12:41 (#1NJ)

If companies desire hardware that they don't make themselves and that is "guaranteed" to be free of eavesdropping/tracking additions, from whom do they buy? The fact that it may be "proven" that the USA is doing such activities in no way proves that other countries aren't?

Re: who is the switzerland of tech (Score: 2, Informative)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-05-16 14:30 (#1NS)

I do believe it's very significant that even this report purports that the spytech is installed AFTER the fact, and that these were otherwise innocent pieces of hardware being shipped, until they were intercepted by the spooks, and then only for particular "targets".

True or not, it's some small comfort that everything's not completely bugged up before it even leaves the factory.

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2014-05-16 15:27 Informative +1 rocks@pipedot.org
2014-05-16 16:45 Insightful +1 songofthepogo@pipedot.org

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