New Reuters article on the NSA’s “new” policy around inserting backdoors into commercial encryption systems. A lot in here. reuters.com/article/us-usa…
Or rather, a lot *not* in here. After the disaster that was the 2015 Juniper hack (due to an NSA backdoor in Juniper’s VPN products being exploited by foreign hackers), the NSA has developed a set of new policies. But they won’t talk about them of course. 
Oh look, here’s Juniper admitting to Congress that an NSA backdoor was exploited in their products. And the NSA writing a report on “lessons learned”. Which they then misplaced.
It’s amazing that nobody is willing to talk about the details of the Juniper hack even after so much has come out publicly, and even after five years. Indicates to me that the full story is really embarrassing to US interests.
Anyway, a further reminder that even a secret backdoor controlled by the NSA was easily repurposed by China to build a surveillance system against the US. Wait til you see what they do with the half-baked public backdoors that legislators are asking for now.
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