For what it's worth, backdoors have been discovered in Ericsson switches, see [1], it's fascinating reading. It's unclear who put them there. Wikipedia [2] alleges that the US embassy in Athens was behind the telephone intercepts. Naturally, Wikipedia is n o t a reliable source in such matters.

I used to work in telecoms myself about 20 years ago, and at least at the time, much of infrastructure was insanely insecure -- I could have backdoored much of the internet's backbone as a lone programmer had I wanted to: our software was used by most big telcos. Not once was our code audited (at least openly). I very much hope that security is taken more seriously now.

[1] V. Prevelakis, D. Spinellis, The Athens Affair. https://web.archive.org/web/20070704193410/http://www.spectr... The pdf is also available through Spinellis' Google Scholar page.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_wiretapping_case_2004%E2...

> I very much hope that security is taken more seriously now.

I've got some bad news ...

You mean like how Oracle backdoored the JVM and how Israel backdoored PHP? Just checking, this is what you mean, right?

The tone of your comment seems a bit confrontational, but I'm not sure why. Can you explain it for somebody lacking context?

I'm gonna guess that skrebbel is a Swede.