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Re: huawei
From: Scott Helms <khelms () zcorum com>
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2013 08:10:29 -0400
Jimmy, This I agree with and in fact I said in earlier parts of this conversation that the existence of a kill switch and/or backdoor in Huawei gear wouldn't surprise me at all. Of course I'd say the same thing about pretty much all the gear manufacturers and its really just a question of who has or can get access to that information for a given manufacturer. Scott Helms Vice President of Technology ZCorum (678) 507-5000 -------------------------------- http://twitter.com/kscotthelms -------------------------------- On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 7:57 AM, Jimmy Hess <mysidia () gmail com> wrote:
On 6/15/13, Scott Helms <khelms () zcorum com> wrote:They're terrible places for gathering non-targeted information becausetheamount of data flowing through them means that that the likelihood of any give packet having any value is very very low. If the goal includes[snip] The probability of a low-likelihood or infrequent event approaches 100%, given sufficient time, persistence, and creativity. Even if 1% or less of packets passing through are interesting; that happens to be more than enough to provide a snoop gains, and cause damage to a legitimate user. The potential existence of 'better' options; doesn't mean backdooring of routers wouldn't be included in part of a nation state or other bad actor's backdooring program. -- -JH
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- Re: huawei Phil Fagan (Jun 16)
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- RE: huawei chris burri (Jun 16)
- Re: huawei Phil Fagan (Jun 16)
- Re: huawei Warren Bailey (Jun 16)
- Re: huawei Scott Helms (Jun 18)
- Re: huawei Eugen Leitl (Jun 15)
- Re: huawei Scott Helms (Jun 15)
- Re: huawei Jimmy Hess (Jun 15)
- Re: huawei Scott Helms (Jun 15)
- Re: huawei Phil Fagan (Jun 13)
- Re: huawei Nick Hilliard (Jun 13)
- Re: huawei Scott Helms (Jun 13)
- Re: huawei Jimmy Hess (Jun 13)
- Re: huawei Mark Seiden (Jun 13)