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by runinit 5972 days ago
Can you trust American computer equipment? As far as i know, there are KNOWN backdoors in Cisco routing equipment.

http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/57070

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Simple answer, no.

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/06/71022

When the writer asked a vendor of eavesdropping equipment about the legality of his products, the response ...

"Do you think this stuff doesn't happen in the West? Let me tell you something. I sell this equipment all over the world, especially in the Middle East. I deal with buyers from Qatar, and I get more concern about proper legal procedure from them than I get in the USA."