Backdoor entry

Fleur Doidge
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Hardware sold by the channel may well include backdoors or implants for government snooping. Should the channel worry?

Going in through the out door. It might be a Led Zeppelin euphemism but it could also evoke the debacle over the discovery of hardware backdoors in numerous leading vendors' products. Laypeople lik...

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