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		gremlinsinc on April 5, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cisco Systems pulled out of Russia: destroyed $23.... CIA should've taken over ops of Cisco in Russia and put backdoors in all infrastructure routers. I'm surprised they didn't.

joshuaissac on April 5, 2023 | [–]

> CIA should've taken over ops of Cisco in Russia and put backdoors in all infrastructure routers

That was happening already.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/cisco-backdoor-hardcoded-a...

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/photos-of-an-nsa...

https://www.infoworld.com/article/2608141/snowden--the-nsa-p...

RobotToaster on April 5, 2023 | [–]

That would require the CIA to not already have backdoors in all Cisco equipment.

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