The NSA is planting exploits. It is not only exploiting existing security holes: it is creating new security holes, by manipulating the hardware. Is is effectively working together with Cisco / any other company (maybe not willingly, but who cares) to manufacture a Cisco/NSA router, with a backdoor easily accessible to the NSA.
According to his comment he is not aware of this, otherwise he would not differentiate between Cisco/NSA and Huawei.
And according to your comment, you do not even understand what I am saying.
The concern with Huawei is that a security apparatus would be inserting backdoors/Trojans into every device. The NASA's targeted attacks of a few hundred (thousand?) devices is entirely unrelated.
Previously the story was "the chinese are inserting backdoors". Afterwards the story was, the NSA is spying everyone. Now the story seems to be that the NSA is spying and planting some backdoors. How many? 1% of devices? 10%? 99%?
Let me clarify two things for you:
- We do not know how many backdoors the chinese are planting. Maybe none, maybe in all devices.
- We do not know how many backdoors the NSA is planting. Maybe just in some devices, maybe in most devices.
In light of this, how are you so sure that "these two situations aren't even in the same universe." Do you have any other knowledge that you would like to share?
