Re: NSA able to compromise Cisco, Juniper, Huawei switches

[Warren Bailey <wbailey () satelliteintelligencegroup com>]

China. ;) lol


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From: Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster () mykolab com>
Date: 12/31/2013 4:13 PM (GMT-08:00)
To: nanog () nanog org
Subject: Re: NSA able to compromise Cisco, Juniper, Huawei switches


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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

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