Photo of NSA technicians sabotaging Cisco router prior to export

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So here are a couple questions I have:

  1. Why haven’t we seen independent reports about this. If the hardware is tampered with it will be evident. Extra pieces have to be explained. If it’s software or firmware how do they get check sums to match. Cisco posts checks sums for all their software and firmware downloads.

  2. If these are NSA employees where are there CAC badges. THose are generally required in any sort of secured facility.

  3. How do we know this is an NSA facility. I don’t see anything that actually indicates it? Not even the usual wall detrius that you normally see in government buildings like evacutaion routes etc. All in all it looks like an ordinary loading dock.

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