Если вы покупаете какой-нибудь хайтек с доставкой из Штатов, NSA может вашу посылочку перехватить, добавить в неё незаметно что-нибудь от себя, и отослать вам:
A June 2010 report from the head of the NSA's Access and Target Development department is shockingly explicit. 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.(emphasis mine) [источник, Guardian]The agency then implants backdoor surveillance tools, repackages the devices with a factory seal and sends them on.
The NSA thus gains access to entire networks and all their users. The document gleefully observes that some "SIGINT tradecraft … is very hands-on (literally!)".Eventually, the implanted device connects back to the NSA. The report continues: "In one recent case, after several months a beacon implanted through supply-chain interdiction called back to the NSA covert infrastructure. This call back provided us access to further exploit the device and survey the network."
Меня особенно впечатляет вот это intercepts. Т.е. даже если ваш американский контрагент на 100% порядочен, бэкдор в посылке от него вам всё равно прилетит. После этого, конечно, предыдущая дискуссия о том, допустимо ли массированно прослушивать коммуникации, выглядит смешно и безнадёжно.
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Date: 2014-05-12 11:06 pm (UTC)I wonder if you buy something in Fry's, does it already have a spy inside...
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Date: 2014-05-13 07:19 pm (UTC)а полная фраза таки будет "they want people to understand that cybertheft is real, that it's getting worse, and that it's important to hold China particularly responsible" - т.е. предупреждает граждан, чтобы особенно бдили в отношении китайских продуктов.
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