" For years, the US government loudly warned the world that Chinese routers and other internet devices pose a "threat" because they are built with backdoor surveillance functionality that gives the Chinese government the ability to spy on anyone using them. Yet what the NSA's documents show is that Americans have been engaged in precisely the activity that the US accused the Chinese of doing."


I have thought for a while that it would be easy for China to add backdoor access into equipment considering a massive amount of equipment is made by Foxconn and other companies. At the end of the day someone is watching what your doing whether its someone in America or China.

When you think about is, Cisco, Brocade, Juniper, Palo Alto, Barracuda, Sonicwall, HP and Allied Telesis equipment is mostly manufactured in America or China.


South Korea are probably doing the same thing with Samsung, recent example is server outage at Samsung HQ caused worldwide outage with smart TV's, most likely example is all traffic is probably routed through their servers as a way of collecting information.