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Re: NSA able to compromise Cisco, Juniper, Huawei switches
From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2014 13:29:07 -0500
On Wed, 01 Jan 2014 11:55:37 +0200, Saku Ytti said:
Is this legal? Can NSA walk in to US based company and legally coerce to install such backdoor?
Well, legal or not... we will probably never know exactly what was said, but apparently the NSA was able to convince/coerce many of the 800 pound telecom gorillas to install taps and backdoors at the server end.
If not, what is the incentive for private company to cooperate?
The same incentive that was used to enforce secrecy on National Security Letters for many years - play nice or you'll end up in an oublette, with a trial to (maybe) be held behind closed doors, where you won't see any of the evidence against you because it's classified. Remember, the US sprouted this "indefinite detention" concept a while back, and still hasn't backtracked on it, because of its enormous usefulness as a cudgel to deal with "enemies of the State".
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- Re: NSA able to compromise Cisco, Juniper, Huawei switches Randy Bush (Jan 01)
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- 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)
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