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The Mother of All Trojans

Well, now we know that the Communists do not understand that entering someone's computer is the same as entering someone's house.  Or maybe I am giving them too much credit.  Do they also enter people's homes if no one is watching? Using zero-day attacks or upatched vulnerabilities is a contorted process that requires lots of hardwork trying to predict and then handle all possible outcomes.  Such attacks are not always successful even if the target computer is vulnerable. If they could spent their talent and energies on such hacks, just imagine what they could have put into all those Huawei routers! According to Wikipedia , Huawei is founded and still led by an ex-PLA man, a card-carrying member of the Communist Party of China and a congressman! Could they be that far-sighted?  The router is the mother of all Trojans.  It's the interface point between your internal network and the Internet.  All other network equipment are similarly vulnerable as they just have