在「To Avoid NSA Interception, Cisco Will Ship To Decoy Addresses」這篇看到的報導,出自「Cisco posts kit to empty houses to dodge NSA chop shops」這篇。
去年 Snowden 揭露的資料顯示 NSA 會攔截 Cisco 的硬體,並且在上面安裝後門再打包寄出:「Greenwald alleges NSA tampers with routers to plant backdoors」:
"The NSA routinely receives – or intercepts – routers, servers and other computer network devices being exported from the US before they are delivered to the international customers."
The agency then implants backdoor surveillance tools, repackages the devices with a factory seal and sends them on. The NSA thus gains access to entire networks and all their users.
不過 Cisco 的反應好慢,去年五月就有的消息,現在才提出改善方案。
改善的方法是寄送到集散地,再請人去拿。讓 NSA 之類的單位想要攔截的成本提高。