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facorreia on May 19, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: I found that the company I work for is putting bac...

Seriously, is there any significant piece of hardware on stores nowadays that doesn't have multiple backdoors from application level down to the very microchips? Like [1].

[1] http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-06-27/news/30048253...

trafficlight on May 19, 2012 [–]

What's your point? That it's status quo so don't worry about it?

facorreia on May 19, 2012 | [–]

My point is that this is outraging.

There are so many instances of this, it seems each week we hear from another backdoor like this[1].

[1] http://it.slashdot.org/story/12/04/26/1411229/backdoor-found...

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