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  [CM] NSA planting backdoors on routers, switches RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-05-16 10:19 +0000

#2859 — [CM] NSA planting backdoors on routers, switches

From the «those spooks can just piss off and die» department:
Title: NSA 'Upgrade Point' Implants Backdoors on Hardware
Author: zafiro17@pipedot.org
Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 01:40:32 -0400
Link: http://pipedot.org/story/2014-05-16/nsa-upgrade-point-implants-backdoors-on-hardware

Here's how the NSA is doing its part to sink the American tech sector by
ensuring no one ever buys American products anymore. Ars Technica reports the
NSA is intercepting hardware and implanting its backdoors[1] ("beacons")
before they are rerouted back to the original destination – the customer.
This quote is taken from Glenn Greenwald's[2]No Place to Hide book detailing
his investigations and Snowden's allegations. The statement was made by an
NSA rep:

Here’s how it works: shipments of computer network devices (servers,
routers, etc,) being delivered to our targets throughout the world are
intercepted. Next, they are redirected to a secret location where Tailored
Access Operations/Access Operations (AO-S326) employees, with the support
of the Remote Operations Center (S321), enable the installation of beacon
implants directly into our targets’ electronic devices. These devices are
then re-packaged and placed back into transit to the original destination.
All of this happens with the support of Intelligence Community partners and
the technical wizards in TAO.

Already, most of the world has decided that storing data on American servers
or using American service providers is a risk. Thanks, NSA, for making sure
no one buys American hardware either.

Links:
[1]: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/photos-of-an-nsa-upgrade-factory-show-cisco-router-getting-implant/ (link)
[2]: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/205996.Glenn_Greenwald?from_search=true (link)

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