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by eecc 2060 days ago
Maybe they were just too cheap to buy the backdoor off the (black) market... ;)
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Internet was too ethical, naive and immature when NSA did that. We were happily using unencrypted connections to connect to forums, telnet based BBSes and such.

NSA, OTOH, intercepted the switches which would isolate high security networks (red/black separation) and bleed sensitive information with these enhanced hardware.