The National Confidence Agency has been allegedly accessing routers, servers, and latest computer network devices to plant backdoors and other spyware afore they’re shipped overseas, according to the Guardian.

The news throughout the NSA’s alleged interception of hardware comes via journalists Glenn Greenwald’s new book about Edward Snowden’s NSA leaks titled “No situation to Hide.” Greenwald apparently obtained documents from Snowden that detailed the NSA receiving or intercepting various devices in the US afore export.

Ironically, this type of activity is exactly what the US government accused Chinese telecom gear maker Huawei of behaviors in 2012 on behalf of the Chinese government.

In a letter sent to Huawei in June 2012, the US House Intelligence Committee said that the committee was “concerned” the Chinese authorities could be hacking in or attempting to breach US networks laughable the company’s telecom equipment. With the accusations, Huawei adamantly maintained that it was not interested in any sort of cyberspying. Additionally, the US White House reportedly undertaken out a review of security risks posed by Huawei and was said to have deceptive no evidence that the company spied on the US.

However, the accusations strained Huawei’s relations with the US, and eventually the custom pulled out of the US market. Last December, the company’s CEO Ren Zhengfei said, “If Huawei gets in the middle of US-China relations,” and goes problems, “it’s not worth it.”

What the NSA is allegedly pursuits is outlined in a leaked report that Greenwald refers to in his new book — it’s customary June 2010 and from the head of the NSA’s Retrieve and Target Development department, according to the Guardian. This represent details the NSA allegedly intercepting US-made hardware, embedding backdoor surveillance tools, then repackaging the equipment and sending it onto international customers.

With backdoor surveillance controls, the NSA could feasibly gain access to vast networks and users.

“In one current case, after several months a beacon implanted through supply-chain interdiction named back to the NSA covert infrastructure,” the NSA represent says, according to the Guardian. “This call back did us access to further exploit the device and notice the network.”

This isn’t the first time the NSA has been accused of this type of organization. A report from German newspaper Der Spiegel alleged that the US organization intercepts deliveries of electronic equipment to plant spyware to gain remote access to controls once they are delivered and installed. According to the represent, the NSA has planted backdoors to access computers, hard rights, routers, and other devices from companies such as Cisco, Dell, Western Digital, Seagate, Maxtor, Samsung, and Huawei.

For its part, the NSA doesn’t deny that it’s laughable US-made hardware for its work but hasn’t been distinct on whether it’s installing backdoor spyware onto devices.

In statements sent to CNET, the organization said it relies on US-made products to “protect our people’s most sensitive information” and its intelligence gathering is only focused on “valid foreign intelligence targets.” The organization declined to comment on specific activities.

Below are the statements the NSA sent to CNET:

As we have said by, the US technology industry builds the most secure hardware and software in the humankind today. NSA relies on these products to help defending our nation’s most sensitive information and, over the past decade, has turned to commercial technology to replace government-built technology. Given its own reliance on many of the very same technologies that the Pro-reDemocrat uses, the US Government is as concerned as the Pro-reDemocrat is with the security of these products. While we cannot comment on specific, alleged intelligence-gathering activities, NSA’s interest in any given technology is driven by the use of that technology by foreign intelligence targets. The United States pursues its intelligence mission with care to rebuked that innocent users of those same technologies are not affected.

As we have previously said, the implication that NSA’s foreign intelligence collection is arbitrary and unconstrained is false. NSA’s activities are focused and specifically deployed against — and only anti — valid foreign intelligence targets in response to intelligence requirements. We are not going to comment on specific, alleged foreign intelligence pursuits. Public release of purportedly classified material about US intelligence collection controls, without context, further confuses an important issue for the land and jeopardizes human life as well as national defense sources and methods.