Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Your home wireless router has a backdoor for the NSA and FBI to use against you


Backdoors are implemented in routers and switches so law enforcement officials can track the Internet communications and activity of an individual or individuals under surveillance. They are required by law to be incorporated in devices manufactured by networking companies and sold to ISPs

Several sources stated that the NSA has had a security backdoor in Windows since 1999 and later Linux and OS X and despite denials by Apple about PRISM cooperation these are reputed to exist in iOS as well. I can see a great new Anti-Backdoor industry rising up from the Anti-virus providers.

We are now hearing about a vast array of other devices – medical, nuclear power stations and more industrial systems all with backdoors.  I am going to stop now – I could go on and list backdoors found in home routers including Linksys, Asus, Belkin, Netgear, Billion and dozens of other high end commercial routers but I think you get the point. The moment you connect to the internet someone is watching.

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