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I think you are vastly overestimating things here.
I’ve purchased Ubiquiti hardware. Tens of thousands of dollars worth of shipped directly to the final destination. There was no middle man, no previous relationship, no vendor, no sales associate. I just went to their website, put in my credit card info, and gave a shipping address.
It sounds like you’re saying that such a purchase should be put under scrutiny, but that scrutiny would be… asking me if I am a legit entity? And what, I need to provide some sort of ambiguous proof that I am not the Russian military?
You’re jumping straight into “are they making efforts to prevent it” without even providing a real life way to do so. Sales metrics are all good and fine, but all that really tells you is that there are potentially more sales than needed. The funny thing is, these sales could be spread throughout hundreds of corporations in dozens of countries.
Countries have been doing clandestine purchasing for decades if not centuries, you really think a good faith effort by one company would uncover what dozens of other countries can’t? You really think the US isn’t itching to figure out where those devices are getting in through? Or the EU? Or Ukraine? They have many more resources than Ubiquiti to figure this out. You think they just don’t care?