> Also for people who don't want US backdoors in their hardware.
For people that want to swap KGB surveillance over NSA's.
FTFY
For people that want to swap KGB surveillance over NSA's.
FTFY
Say you're in the west. NSA has backdoors into your US-designed hardware and your US-designed OS. NSA also, probably, has access to your ISP's routers and US net/web corporations like Google. As a result, NSA may hide C&C channels where KGB use of a backdoor to your hardware would still show detectable illegitimate network traffic.
Lower risk of detection translates to higher probability of use.