NSA embedded surveillance tools within exported US computer hardware

[No1butPaul]

RT

While the United States has warned against buying Chinese routers due to surveillance concerns, a new book about the Edward Snowden revelations states America has been intercepting and tinkering with routers intended for foreign customers.

According to Glenn Greenwald – one of the journalists entrusted with Snowden’s leaked documents – the National Security Agency has been implanting devices into routers headed overseas since at least 2010.

In an extract from Greenwald’s new book, titled “No Place to Hide,” the journalist states 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.”

http://rt.com/usa/158484-nsa-tools-exported-computer-hardware/

 

[HOLLYWOOD]

Embedded spying in Hardware and Software... the 'Wizard of Oz land' doesn't want anything escaping their stranglehold.


So what do you think... US High Tech sector poised to be the next killed by the US government and their Nazi agencies?

 

[DamianTV]

Embedded spying in Hardware and Software... the 'Wizard of Oz land' doesn't want anything escaping their stranglehold.


So what do you think... US High Tech sector poised to be the next killed by the US government and their Nazi agencies?

Next to be killed will be Operating Systems, such as anything by Microsoft, Apple, or Google. As soon as foreign competition arises with a quality product to these giants, they will fall.

 

[Warrior_of_Freedom]

Next to be killed will be Operating Systems, such as anything by Microsoft, Apple, or Google. As soon as foreign competition arises with a quality product to these giants, they will fall.

hopefully, I'm tired of using Windows, but I have trouble taking the leap back into the stone age with Linux.

 

[unknown]

We export stuff?

 

[VBRonPaulFan]

We export stuff?

yeah, most notably debt.

 

[tod evans]

We export stuff?

Freedom and democracy...

It looks like this;

 

[GunnyFreedom]

To be fair, bugging a package intercepted in shipping is at least better than a product bugged by the manufacturer.

This is in fact the last issue that I am trying to find a solution to: compromise in transit. I have designed an NSA-Proof computer and I am in the process of getting startup capital to produce it. The one problem I have not conceived a solution to as of yet is having the product intercepted and compromised in transit.

I considered shipping a box inside of a box, with two different sets of serialized security tape where the serial numbers are somehow mathematically related to each other and can be confirmed by the recipient, but I am guessing that the NSA would be able to replicate such tape, and re-use the serial numbers provided.

Cash bonus (when and if the NSA-Proof computer gets off the ground) to the person who solves the compromise-in-transit problem.

 

[HVACTech]

Next to be killed will be Operating Systems, such as anything by Microsoft, Apple, or Google. As soon as foreign competition arises with a quality product to these giants, they will fall.

not to worry, I am SURE Al Gore will ride to the rescue!