They evidently did not care that our enemies could crack it too.
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The people who put in backdoors hope that no one ever finds out about them, and they usually protect them so that even if they did, it wouldn’t be easy to exploit. But they are obviously most secure if you don’t even know they are there.
The problem is, Asian manufacturers are notorious for reverse engineering all their competition’s product. They want to know everything does.
However, the people here mentioning the NSA are probably on to something. From what I have heard, they don’t like anyone locking them out. So if they made a deal with the manufacturer of the product with the back door to include it, I wouldn’t be surprised if this story ends up going no where
“However, the people here mentioning the NSA are probably on to something. From what I have heard, they don’t like anyone locking them out.”
True. It makes one wonder if they have back doors to all the VPN servers too - at least the US-based ones.