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Brian Bixby's avatar

Backdoors are pretty much traditional in Israeli products, back in the '80s and '90s they sold telephony switches to the US government, including the Pentagram, with hard-coded backdoors which could not be removed.

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Vin LoPresti's avatar

Indeed; note that I wrote "habitually". Whitney Webb's books are quite good sources for this with their ample references. The Mossad has had its long fingers in US national security for a long while.

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