Firmware backdoors lets China state hackers control routers with “magic packets”

[stalfosknight]

https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/09/china-state-hackers-are-camping-out-in-cisco-routers-us-and-japan-warn/

[thiagoharry]

This is also something that NSA does: https://www.infoworld.com/article/2608141/snowden--the-nsa-p...

Nowadays it appears that there is no escape. It appears that there is always some backdoor in network hardware planted by one of the major countries.