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So, a few years ago a Chinese telcom company started selling network switches and routers around the world. Their name is Huawei and their founder is a former officer of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. A scream went up throughout the USA that their routers would come already compromised and the Chinese government could listen in to all our network traffic and copy all our s3kritz.

Little did we know that the NSA was already hacking our routers and listening to all our network traffic.

Well, it turns out that the NSA also attacked Huawei to get their documentation and source code, so they could hack their equipment when it's installed in countries like North Korea, Saudi Arabia, etc.

Hypocrite much?

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/03/nsa_hacks_huawe.html

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/14/03/22/226205/nsa-hacked-huawei-stole-source-code

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/nsa-spied-on-chinese-government-and-networking-firm-huawei-a-960199.html

The problem is further compounded by something called software-defined networks (SDN). Normally networks are configured in routers and through cabling, but these SDNs break that model, and apparently the NSA does not yet know how to cope with them.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2014/03/how-huawei-became-nsa-nightmare/
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