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Cisco Complains To Obama About NSA Adding Spyware To Routers

Posted by samzenpus on from the get-out-of-there dept.

pdclarry (175918) writes "Glenn Greenwald's book No Place to Hide reveals that the NSA intercepts shipments of networking gear destined for overseas and adds spyware. Cisco has responded by asking the President to intervene and stop this practice, as it has severely hurt their non-U.S. business, with shipments to other countries falling from 7% for emerging countries to over 25% for Brazil and Russia."

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  1. Hypocritical by DaMattster · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I find it funny how the US government accused Huawei and ZTE of building in backdoor access while engaging in the exact same practice. I don't doubt that they do, they just haven't been caught red-handed. Pun full intended. I'm guessing that even if Obama were to issue an executive order halting the process, it would be largely for show. The actions will continue under renewed secrecy.

    1. Re:Hypocritical by NotDrWho · · Score: 5, Interesting

      I find it funny how the US government accused Huawei and ZTE of building in backdoor access while engaging in the exact same practice.

      It's funny. I was watching the news this morning and one of the lead stories was about the arrest of a bunch of Chinese officials for "cyberspying." And the first thing that I thought when I saw that was "I wonder what the Administration is trying to hide with this stunt." So I come on Slashdot and this is the first story I see this morning. Guess I know now why those Chinese dudes got arrested.

      Smart strategy. Whenever a story breaks about YOUR cyberspying, just stage a distraction stunt to highlight OTHER COUNTRY'S cyberspying.

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