Glad this is finally coming to light. Every time I would mention it here that Cisco has built backdoors in its routers specifically to aid the Chinese government and later other governments as well, I would get downvoted. Cisco standardized the &quot;lawful intercept&quot; protocol for routers at the IETF, people! What did you think that meant?!<p>The US government (hopefully after it elects a saner president) and other supposedly democratic countries as well, need to come together and 1) make it clear that you can&#x27;t <i>sell</i> tools which you <i>know</i> are being used for mass censorship and mass surveillance that then leads to torture or assassinations and whatnot (I know, this definition will need to be cleaned up a bit), and 2) punish the companies that still disobey those rules severely. It&#x27;s time for the democratic countries to act the way they say they are.