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Country that put backdoors into Cisco routers to spy on world bans foreign routers (www.theregister.com)

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[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 hours ago

There is an element of hypocrisy in all this because American intelligence agencies were previously caught intercepting Cisco-made routers on their way to customers and updating their firmware to deploy espionage tools.

It's not hypocrisy to try to spy on others while preventing them from spying on you.