Comments by "Eli Nope" (@elinope4745) on "What everyday citizens can do to claim power on the internet | Fadi Chehadé and Bryn Freedman" video.

You don't really believe it is secure do you? Your router is hacked, all routers are hacked. They are made pre-hacked. You have to make your own router or get a very old one if you want it to really be secure.
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@Creative Guise Thank the patriot act for that. US government has backdoors to all routers made by US companies, China does the same with Chinese made routers. If you search old news you will find a time when China was having backdoors put in US routers that were being made in China. Its all part of the internet technology arms race you sometimes hear about and is done in the name of "security". No onion path can protect you, no vpn, no nothing. If a person has access to the codes for the backdoors then they can man in the middle you from your router, and I can't prove, but am pretty certain that the government mandates and gag orders router companies to put in these backdoors and give them access to it.
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@Creative Guise I don't think they dragnet with routers, rather if they have any reason to suspect you for anything they man in the middle. It takes an actual person with actual intent to exploit your routers. That being said, if you logged onto the wrong website it may have flagged you. Say you click on a something that has to show something on your screen (could be damn near anything), it could also run a simple file that your computer doesn't run but your router recognizes and runs without any permission on your side since the router is already hacked. Now FBI or some guy who used to work for FBI, or China, or Google, or the private investigator your ex wife hired, or a Russian sec ops or whoever can get in the middle of whatever goes from your router to your computer. Now that could be securely encrypted, or poorly encrypted. But in the future, any encryption key your router sends they know, and they know the key sent back, so encryption is useless since they can look like you to access anything you accessed. How long do they keep it? Depends on who has it and what they are using it for. Your ISP isn't spying on your router, well it might be, but I doubt it since there are simply too many and it would be expensive to log all that data. But who knows, maybe uncle sam is paying them to do that.
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The idea that powerful corporations and government compete is a myth. Governments work for corporations. Don't believe me? Check your local copyright LAWS.
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