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Those are also compromised. Phillips telecoms used to have trapdoors for the NSA and so did Ericsson.

Some of the Nokia routers from the early 2000s made in Oregon also did allegedly.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/02/phone_tapping...

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/06/greek_wiretap...

https://theintercept.com/2018/03/01/nsa-global-surveillance-...

The Greek wiretapping case involving Ericsson equipment was not due to a “trapdoor” but a malicious implant installed by a threat actor. This is documented in an excellent article by the IEEE [1]

Darknet Diaries produced a podcast on the whole affair which makes for great listening. The podcast episode includes additional details which have surfaced after the IEEE article mentioned [2]

[1] https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-athens-affair

[2] https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/64/

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