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> The USA seems to have an affinity for hardware interdiction as opposed to software backdoors.

What are some examples?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tailored_Access_Operations

Be sure to check out the mentioned catalog. [1]

The NSA's capabilities back in 2008 were pretty astonishing: "RAGEMASTER" A $30 device that taps a VGA cable and transmits the contents of your screen to the NSA van sitting outside! Crazy stuff. Makes you wonder what they've built in the last 15 years.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANT_catalog

Today you’ve got open access USB cable which can stream your shit out on WiFi, no doubt the NSA has worse.

The Clipper chip? Not sure if that's what they had in mind. Nowadays it's maybe just how the NSA has rooms attached to backbone providers like https://theintercept.com/2018/06/25/att-internet-nsa-spy-hub...

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