Glenn Greenwald has accused the US National Security Agency (NSA) of inserting backdoors for surveillance purposes into servers being exported to other countries. The irony here is that this is just the sort of thing that the US government has in the…

Greenwald: NSA sneaking backdoors into hardware exports

Juan Cole 05/15/2014

NSA is accused of sneaking backdoors into hardware exports (via The Inquirer)

Glenn Greenwald has accused the US National Security Agency (NSA) of inserting backdoors for surveillance purposes into servers being exported to other countries. The irony here is that this is just the sort of thing that the US government has in the…

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