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Re: NSA able to compromise Cisco, Juniper, Huawei switches
From: Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster () mykolab com>
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2013 16:10:45 -0800
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 12/31/2013 4:02 PM, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Warren Bailey: > >> Explaining, not a denial written by their legal department. I find it >> insanely difficult to believe cisco systems has a backdoor into some of >> their product lines with no knowledge or participation. > > As far as I understand it, these are firmware tweaks or implants > sitting on a privileged bus (think PCI with busmaster DMA). Such > things can be added after the device has left the factory by a > sufficiently knowledgeable third party. > That's really interesting. Where are these Cisco devices manufactured? - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 10.2.0 (Build 2317) Charset: utf-8 wj8DBQFSw1z/q1pz9mNUZTMRAvbIAKCYZn3slg1wMak/nlc/hb3ZHkS29wCg3ucb OJTl+SLgBtQDMGi+cTdDRtQ= =VAdw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Paul Ferguson PGP Public Key ID: 0x63546533
Current thread:
- Re: NSA able to compromise Cisco, Juniper, Huawei switches Florian Weimer (Dec 31)
- Re: NSA able to compromise Cisco, Juniper, Huawei switches Paul Ferguson (Dec 31)
- Re: NSA able to compromise Cisco, Juniper, Huawei switches Warren Bailey (Dec 31)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: NSA able to compromise Cisco, Juniper, Huawei switches Saku Ytti (Jan 01)
- Re: NSA able to compromise Cisco, Juniper, Huawei switches Randy Bush (Jan 01)
- Re: NSA able to compromise Cisco, Juniper, Huawei switches Valdis . Kletnieks (Jan 01)
- Re: NSA able to compromise Cisco, Juniper, Huawei switches Jimmy Hess (Jan 01)
- Re: NSA able to compromise Cisco, Juniper, Huawei switches Eugeniu Patrascu (Jan 01)
- Re: NSA able to compromise Cisco, Juniper, Huawei switches Saku Ytti (Jan 02)
- Re: NSA able to compromise Cisco, Juniper, Huawei switches Eugeniu Patrascu (Jan 02)
- Re: NSA able to compromise Cisco, Juniper, Huawei switches Paul Ferguson (Dec 31)
- Re: NSA able to compromise Cisco, Juniper, Huawei switches Brandon Butterworth (Jan 01)
- Re: NSA able to compromise Cisco, Juniper, Huawei switches Marco Teixeira (Jan 01)