Yeah, it's fascinating. Also it's not true.

Some people that worked at Nortel at that time already spoke on HN what happened - hint: it was internal Nortel's issues. Something similar happened to Nokia, better products appeared and company wasn't able to compete.

Source?

Also would like a source

Whenever I see a claim on HN i've never seen before and ask for a source, 100% I never hear back from OP.

Here’s a link.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/nortel-collapse-linked-to-c...

>"A former systems security adviser to Nortel Networks says he has no doubt"

Yeah sure, this sounds like an iron clad proof.