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Re: NSA able to compromise Cisco, Juniper, Huawei switches
From: Jay Ashworth <jra () baylink com>
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2013 22:51:13 -0500 (EST)
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From: "Ray Soucy" <rps () maine edu>
I hope when [if] the truth is learned it is a lot less prevalent than it sounds, but I'm not optimistic. This is why we need all infrastructure to be implemented using open standards, open hardware designs, and open source software IMHO. I hope Cisco, Juniper, and others respond quickly with updated images for all platforms affected before the details leak.
I hate to be Even More Paranoid Than That (and if I go off-air for more than about a week, assume those Black Eyeshades types whose mention got me kicked off the list after Katrina came for me :-), but contemplate this: === If you were the NSA, and you had a spandy new image with lots of great backdooring and kill-switching all ready to do, and you'd plunked it in Cisco's TAC download site (with or without their knowledge)... ...what do you suppose you'd do? Wouldn't you want some way to motivate everyone to grab that new image and plonk it on all their devices as fast as possible? Wouldn't it be the definition of irony if the way you got everyone to install your bug on their router ... was because they were afraid you already had? Is Ken Thompson turning over in his grave yet? === Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra () baylink com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 1274
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- RE: NSA able to compromise Cisco, Juniper, Huawei switches, (continued)
- RE: NSA able to compromise Cisco, Juniper, Huawei switches Keith Medcalf (Dec 30)
- Re: NSA able to compromise Cisco, Juniper, Huawei switches Dobbins, Roland (Dec 30)
- Re: NSA able to compromise Cisco, Juniper, Huawei switches Eugeniu Patrascu (Dec 31)
- Re: NSA able to compromise Cisco, Juniper, Huawei switches Valdis . Kletnieks (Dec 31)
- Re: NSA able to compromise Cisco, Juniper, Huawei switches Dobbins, Roland (Dec 30)
- Re: NSA able to compromise Cisco, Juniper, Huawei switches Marco Teixeira (Dec 30)
- Re: NSA able to compromise Cisco, Juniper, Huawei switches jim deleskie (Dec 30)
- Re: NSA able to compromise Cisco, Juniper, Huawei switches Randy Bush (Dec 30)
- Re: NSA able to compromise Cisco, Juniper, Huawei switches Dobbins, Roland (Dec 30)
- Re: NSA able to compromise Cisco, Juniper, Huawei switches Warren Bailey (Dec 30)
- Re: NSA able to compromise Cisco, Juniper, Huawei switches Jay Ashworth (Dec 30)
- Re: NSA able to compromise Cisco, Juniper, Huawei switches William Waites (Dec 30)
- Re: NSA able to compromise Cisco, Juniper, Huawei switches Dobbins, Roland (Dec 30)
- Re: NSA able to compromise Cisco, Juniper, Huawei switches Jeremy Bresley (Dec 30)
- Re: NSA able to compromise Cisco, Juniper, Huawei switches Warren Bailey (Dec 30)
- Re: NSA able to compromise Cisco, Juniper, Huawei switches Randy Bush (Dec 30)
- Re: NSA able to compromise Cisco, Juniper, Huawei switches Sharif Torpis (Dec 30)
- Re: NSA able to compromise Cisco, Juniper, Huawei switches Florian Weimer (Dec 31)
- Re: NSA able to compromise Cisco, Juniper, Huawei switches Randy Bush (Dec 31)