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DamianTV
05-19-2014, 04:35 PM
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/14/05/19/0222241/cisco-complains-to-obama-about-nsa-adding-spyware-to-routers


"Glenn Greenwald's book No Place to Hide reveals that the NSA intercepts shipments of networking gear destined for overseas and adds spyware. Cisco has responded by asking the President to intervene and stop this practice, as it has severely hurt their non-U.S. business, with shipments to other countries falling from 7% for emerging countries to over 25% for Brazil and Russia."

Obamas Response: Its a Feature, not a Bug! See? Free Upgrade paid for by the US Cattle.

HOLLYWOOD
05-19-2014, 05:14 PM
Started long ago...

https://www.eff.org/issues/calea


https://www.eff.org/sites/all/themes/frontier/images/logo_full.png (https://www.eff.org/) Electronic Frontier Foundation (https://www.eff.org/)
Defending your rights in the digital world

CALEA

The Perils of Wiretapping the Internet
EFF and a coalition of public interest industry and academic groups filed suit in 2005 challenging the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) unjustified expansion of the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA). By forcing broadband Internet and interconnected voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services to become wiretap-friendly the FCC ignored CALEA's plain language and threatened privacy security and innovation.

Congress passed the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) in 1994


Cryptotyme's post of the 33 page FCC report/Congressional CALEA Act high tech manufacturers forced to install built-in wire tapping functionality into equipment/hardware.

http://cryptome.org/laes/calea-require.pdf