Glenn Greenwald: how the #NSA tampers with US-made internet #routers | World news | The Guardian
▻http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/may/12/glenn-greenwald-nsa-tampers-us-internet-routers-snowden?r
The NSA has been covertly implanting interception tools in US servers heading overseas – even though the US government has warned against using Chinese technology for the same reasons, says Glenn Greenwald, in an extract from his new book about the #Snowden affair, No Place to Hide
Router Manufacturers Secretly added TCP 32764 Backdoor Vulnerability Again - The Hacker News
▻http://thehackernews.com/2014/04/router-manufacturers-secretly-added-tcp.html
The Reverse-engineer from France Eloi Vanderbeken, who discovered this backdoor has found that although the problem has been patched in the latest firmware release, (...) SerComm has added the same backdoor again in another way.
(...) another mysterious tool called ‘ft_tool’ with “-f”option that could re-activates the TCP backdoor.
#surveillance #NSA #backdoor via @ybon
Cf. How the NSA tampers with US-made internet routers ▻http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/may/12/glenn-greenwald-nsa-tampers-us-internet-routers-snowden
