Glenn Greenwald: how the NSA tampers with US-made internet routers

[Vulcan]

Another invasion of privacy or just more industrial and intergovernmental spyware?

The NSA has been covertly implanting interception tools in US servers heading overseas – even though the US government has warned against using Chinese technology for the same reasons, says Glenn Greenwald, in an extract from his new book about the Snowden affair, No Place to Hide

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.

http://www.theguardian.com/books/201...outers-snowden

[Looch City]

It's only bad if the evil Commies do it.

[burn_this_city]

Who do we think the Chinese learned it from?

[Krovikan]

This is one of many reasons my router uses OpenBSD

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[Locke]

Maybe if they spent less time and money spying on people they could balance their budget and pay down their deficits.

99.9% of people are probably not worth spying on.

[Rathji]

Clearly a violation of privacy.

However, considering the numbers of vulnerabilities put into router unintentionally by careless manufacturers who have lazy implementations of UPnP or have intentional backdoors or ports opened by default, it makes you wonder which is the bigger threat.

[Northendzone]

so thye have learned that 9 out of 10 US males prefer red***; while the 10th prefers a different site?

[MelBridgeman]

damned of you do and damned if you don't - tis the world of intelligence and homeland protection