<i>&quot;I am shocked—shocked—to find that gambling is going on in here!&quot;</i><p>--from &quot;Casablanca&quot;<p>I&#x27;d be shocked to learn that there are no back doors in routing equipment.  Having that kind of control is just too appealing to the most powerful players -- the NSA, China, perhaps Russia.<p>One hopes that people who care about the privacy of their communications are not relying on the routers for encryption.  I would encrypt end-to-end.  Even if the spooks are capturing the data, let them work for their cleartext.<p>Of course, we have to use algorithms that aren&#x27;t compromised, either.<p>Annoying and disturbing.  And they can&#x27;t claim it&#x27;s needed to stop terrorism, either.  The U.S. anti-terrorism apparatus didn&#x27;t spot an obviously dangerous couple in San Bernardino, even after one of them posted jihadist goals on her stream.  They didn&#x27;t stop the Tsarnaev brothers from bombing the Boston Marathon even after the Russians phoned to warn us about them.  Idiots.