So, security is not just local, it's international as the Internet we work on daily now spans to the far reaches of the globe. What happens when networking hardware and politics collide? Well, you get this(Links to an external site.) and this(Links to an external site.) for example.

Here's what I'd like for you to discuss:

- Do you think hardware vendors have written in "golden keys" to spy on any network traffic that passes through their devices? - Why or why not? - How could the network hardware manufacturers "get away" with adding these built in "vulnerabilities?" - What do you think the long term implications of government paranoia over these hardware vendors might mean for the future of the Internet?