Iran claims US exploited networking equipment backdoors during strikes

Surely they don't need backdoors when they can just exploit the awful network security that American networking equipment vendors already come with out of the box?

The US needed to smuggle Stuxnet in, but with networking equipment there's a treasure trove of shitty practices. Cisco and Juniper have been caught hiding hard-coded password how many times now?

Which is why they should have bought networking equipment from their friends.

Is it worse than bombing school, though?

Turns out, a $14.5 Billion budget can buy some mind-bendingly awesome cyber effects.

Which is why banning chinese routers and banning chinese cars than can be remotely disabled by the komrades makes sense.

Selling cars, worldwide, made sense when they weren't always connected to the mother land. Germans selling you a BMW in the 80s? You've got the key: you turn the key. They couldn't turn off all the BMWs if suddenly the US were to be at war with Germany again.

But this madness of cars receiving OTA updates and remote subscriptions and whatnots?

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So they burned through weapon stockpile and also through zero day stockpile. Good job, another strategic success which will help in war with China...