Comment by janmo
True, probably the NSA wanted to smear the Chinese when in fact they are the ones implanting bugs in hardware.
True, probably the NSA wanted to smear the Chinese when in fact they are the ones implanting bugs in hardware.
Given the embarrassingly bad security practices of hardware vendors (see recent secure boot key leak) do the spy agencies require deliberate backdoors anymore? I have lost count of the number of times Cisco has shipped a hardcoded admin password.
Maybe the Chinese wanted to smear the NSA by making it look like the NSA was trying to smear the Chinese when the NSA in fact were the ones implanting bugs in the hardware...