Second one they know about or admit to. BTW, I heard more than rumors that some Cisco firewalls sold to the U.S. military with legitimate serial numbers and no signs of tampering had trapdoor malware installed that would have allowed an outsider access. (Not surprisingly, they were manufactured in China. Gotta wonder about how we let ourselves get in this predictament.) I wonder how well the Isrealis have infiltrated the Iranians supply chain and how much malware and other defective material they are feeding them.
“Cisco” - Spanish for “bend over”
No need to wonder. Chinese donations to the Bill Clinton's 1996
campaign fund. Just ask John Glen. He helped block inquiries
into such matters.
Vince Foster's and Ron Brown's "unfortunate" deaths probably kept
people in line...
This is partially true. The issue came up during a QA by a governmental agency, and they traced it back to a specific manufacturer in China. As I recall, Cisco had snuffed the contract with them over other, uncited concerns.
I wouldn't put this past the Chi-comms. It's relatively easy to install your own open-source software on these devices, but often the "back doors" are hardware encoded and difficult to uncover unless you're sniffing ports and come across some strange traffic.
Probably made by Huawei.