The NSA is willing to go frighteningly far for your enigma , but at least one hardware maker is willing to go further . A Cisco executive director just said his companywill ship its networking equipment to vacant addressesto avoid NSA interception . Clever estimate .
The NSAwas caught putting backdoor in Cisco electronics last class , and this calendar week Cisco ’s security chief John Stewart revealed the dead free fall programme to skirt the government stag , admitting it ’s not unfailing . “ We ship [ box ] to an name and address that ’s has nothing to do with the client , and then you have no idea who ultimately it is going to , ” he explained . “ There is always go to be inbuilt risk . ”
And he ’s totally right . Justcheck out this picturefrom leaked NSA documents showing government hood intercepting Cisco networking equipment . you could distinguish it ’s Cisco because the dang logotype is on the side of the boxwood :
Of course , Cisco is also render to envision out exactly who has NSA beacons already installed in their equipment , though it ’s heavy for them to tell since they have no idea what the NSA ’s top hugger-mugger engineering science . The company ’s best stake is to ask customers to plunk up the equipment like a shot from the manufactory or ship it to an empty planetary house , as if it were some sort of drug deal . Becausethis is what surveillance in America has fall to .
[ The Register ]
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