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As we hear about the pagers in Lebanon that injured more than 2,700 people today, a reminder that one of the things that came out of the Ed Snowden leaks is that the NSA intercepts packages en route to customers to install malware and surveillance devices.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I aughtta beat you with a switch

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Tell my wifi love her.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

DAD?!

The memory of your beatings is the hub of all my troubles :(

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If they can't route a package with it being tampered with how am I supposed to trust their packets?

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So, i started working for Cisco shortly after this went down, and it actually changed basically everything about their global supply chain. Anywhere that devices which would be provided to customers were at rest were blanketed by cameras and literally all procurement shipping was changed to overnight (or first overnight for anything near a warehouse) to try to make it functionally impossible to execute the same attack again.

Talk shit about their products all you want, but they were unironically angry about this issue and in classic Cisco fashion threw money at the problem until it went away.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

That's awesome.

I suspect there's still ample opportunity for the NSA/etc (indeed any state actor) to interfere with shipping at almost any point and have disclosure that it happened be a crime.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Packet loss. Hur hur.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Stop trying to make slam a thing again

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

Just wait until gen Z gets a better foothold in journalism.

Harris BODIES Trump in latest release

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Good catch.
Why is a ten year old article in a world news comm?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I mean, the post says so in the first sentence. It's a callback reminder in light of the explosive pagers.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, we knew that before Snowden. Story made me think of my uncle, RIP, who's friend told him to "buy Cisco, trust me" back in the early '90s. So my uncle bought Sysco. He was pissed at himself until the day he died.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

I think Sysco is up about 10% per year on average since 1990 so it's not so bad...