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by RandomBacon 2650 days ago
Shouldn't this be something that the NSA looks into and prevents?

The NSA works with US companies to secure their systems from espionage.

Shouldn't the NSA be analyzing consumer electronics to make sure they don't spy on US citizens, some of which will have sensitive information or trade secrets on their phones?

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NSA is the world-wide espionage agency. They welcome these leaks. That's why security bugs found in Windows are first sent to NSA and later eventually to Microsoft to fix. Read more about Snowden's leaks, read stallman.org.
They do warn the public, but people on this site say the warnings aren't real, and that it's just the government trying to hurt Chinese businesses. Look at any of the threads about Huawei, it's mostly full of people saying that the warnings from western intelligence agencies are lies as part of a trade war.
It seems that some companies do not like to be "secured" by NSA, according to the article [1]

[1] https://www.wired.com/2013/10/nsa-hacked-yahoo-google-cables...

'Do as I say, not as I do'?

Aren't those companies tryig to get all the information they can about us?

Perhaps they don't want to be "secured" because it costs money to do so.

This is more FBI's lane of work.