[chippy]

So that means that if you buy and use the router in the USA, your router will be clean, but if the routers get shipped overseas they are corrupted?

[wmf]

It's not all overseas hardware; it's probably just a few targeted customers. This has been going on since the cold war.

[fixermark]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberian_pipeline_sabotage

[Theodores]

Speculative hearsay with no hard evidence.

[fixermark]

What's your source? Mine is the CIA.

"Contrived computer chips found their way into Soviet military equipment, flawed turbines were installed on a gas pipeline, and defective plans disrupted the output of chemical plants and a tractor factory." ~ https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intellig...

[joshstrange]

Well being inside the USA doesn't protect you from receiving modified equipment, it has been reported that the NSA will, for certain "Persons of interest", intercept hardware in transit and compromise it.