> It might be more complicated than this. They are said to have back doors in
> *standard protocols* (Linux included) [1,2,3,4] and these are hard to get by
> unless you are a security professional (I'm not). What about hardware-based
> hacks [5] (in which case "Intel" might be just an abbreviation)? Remember that
> they just need to sniff packets and then decrypt successfully in order to gain
> remote access.

Finally a mature response. I was beginning to think I was dealing with
11-year-olds.