NSA ducks questions about backdoors in tech products

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NSA ducks questions about backdoors in tech products

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The US National Security Agency is rebuffing efforts by a leading Congressional critic to determine whether it is continuing to place backdoors into commercial technology products, in a controversial practice that critics say damages both US industry and national security. The NSA has long ...

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