[drzaiusapelord]

This is also a great commentary on the inherit untrustworthiness of for-profit corporations. From a capitalist perspective trading the security of your users for some early commercial advantage like those 1977 algos from the NSA is "worth it," and the cost is unseen (allowing backdoors) and never disclosed to the customer (dishonesty). There's no one watching this, no rules, and people like Nelson Mandela were victimized because of this. Whenever I meet someone who refuses to run secure systems on anything but FOSS, I respect that they accept that capitalism is a failure in this regard, and a huge one at that.

I have no idea what commercial products are secure now, and neither do you. That's a problem.

[rasz]

Philips made bank on incorporating NSA backdoored algo - NSA shell company bought out whole inventory of the "good" version of the product all at once.

"The remaining stock of 12,000 'old' PX-1000 units was bought by Philips, along with 20,000 firmware PROMs that had already been manufactured. Philips later sold them on to the NSA 1 along with 50 PXP-40 printers, for a total of NLG 16.6 million (more than EUR 7.5 million) [9]. Officially, the equipment was sold a company by the name of Reynolds which is believed to be an NSA front"

Comes down to about 600 Euro per device, and considering they were selling them at 1K Euro retail its a good price to get rid of whole batch all at once.

Nelson Mandela team was smart to use pre backdoor device.