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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.