Glenn Greenwald: How the NSA Tampers With US Made Internet Routers 347
Bob9113 (14996) writes "According to Glenn Greenwald, reporting in The Guardian: 'A June 2010 report from the head of the NSA's Access and Target Development department is shockingly explicit. 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 agency then implants backdoor surveillance tools, repackages the devices with a factory seal, and sends them on. The NSA thus gains access to entire networks and all their users. The document gleefully observes that some "SIGINT tradecraft is very hands-on (literally!)".'"
Re:Nice job NSA (Score:5, Funny)
You just single-handedly killed the entire US tech industry. You murdered trust. No one will ever trust US hardware again.
Right.
Because hardware from China isn't subject to this.
Or Europe. Those oh-so-reasonable Europeans would never engage in espionage.... (what a good, simple eyeroll emoticon?)
We should get equipment from Canada. If they start to put such measures in their hardware, it would come with an apology sticker on the box.
Re:Nice job NSA (Score:4, Funny)
I think the gooey maple syrup finger prints on the hardware would give them away....