How The NSA ampers With U.S.-Made Internet Routers

[mindwalker_i]

The Guardian

For years, the US government loudly warned the world that Chinese routers and other internet devices pose a "threat" because they are built with backdoor surveillance functionality that gives the Chinese government the ability to spy on anyone using them. Yet what the NSA's documents show is that Americans have been engaged in precisely the activity that the US accused the Chinese of doing.

I find this interesting because the U.S. has been losing manufacturing jobs for a while, and now, manufacturing will have to move overseas because nobody will trust anything made here (anything computer-related). We're almost pushing companies out of the U.S.

[snooper2]

1. we are already laughing at this article in another thread FYI

[mindwalker_i]

3. Doh!

[Daemonaquila]

4. Sad that people are laughing about it.

It's easy to write off an article as a "conspiracy theory," but it doesn't change the fact that the NSA (and other nations' intel services) are tampering with routers and sucking down data. That the story somewhat simplifies what they're doing so that 8th graders could somewhat understand it, doesn't mean that the story is wrong.

[snooper2]

5. "sucking down data" is technical language I'm not familar with

You ever do a wireshark capture?

I wonder if the Chinese are smart enough to figure out where the "magical" packets are destined...

[msanthrope]

2. Already posted....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024946870