It's also a mistake to assume that a very capable country can't get into a network that uses US equipment/software... especially Cisco equipment with all the "forgotten" hardcoded logins. Iran is better off with Chinese equipment than American or Korean.

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kragen a day ago | parent | next [-]

Nobody knows enough to say whether Iran is better off with Chinese equipment, because most of the intentional backdoors on every side of this struggle remain undiscovered by the other sides.

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dse1982 a day ago | parent [-]

Well, China is more on the side of Iran than the US or US allies. So there is that.

	▲	kragen a day ago \| parent [-]
		Yes, but that doesn't imply they want Iran's telecommunications network to be a black box to the PLA.

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mensetmanusman a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Not if you know math…