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Re:5G: The outsourced elephant in the room by goodpoint on Saturday April 17, 2021 @01:07PM (#26845766)
Plenty of evidence proves that intelligent services:

- Buy exploits on the market, with the US govt being the biggest buyer.

- Buy data off legitimate advertising and intelligence companies

- Hire people to find bugdoors

- Hire people to infiltrate all sorts of companies and extract information or plant bugdoors

- Convince or coerce companies to plant bugdoors in their own products

- Do the hacking themselves, plant hardware backdoors and so on

Unsurprisingly, they use all available methods.

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Re:5G: The outsourced elephant in the room by cratermoon on Saturday April 17, 2021 @01:35PM (#26845940)
OK, I should not have said never, but when the option is between "we could hack this but if we get caught it would be an international diplomatic incident" and "hey there's a broker over here with the data for sale", the do buy it.
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