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Very eerie. Scary to imagine that the very systems we rely on are fundamentally flawed even more so than generic "NSA back doors," but down to policy of implementation.


They keep saying China is a big enemy, so it would not be surprising if they have growing resources to start exploiting these kinds of vulnerabilities as well. Should stop backdooring stuff in the name of terrorism because the economic and political damage of enemy states with growing IT resources is far worse IMHO.




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