Photo of NSA technicians sabotaging Cisco router prior to export

shaddack May 16, 2014, 3:21am 10

Would it be possible to discover such bootloader tampering using a JTAG port on the board?

Any suggestions for designing tamper-evident hardware, where such attempts could be easily detected?

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