Re: [TSCM-L] Re: Feds move to include backdoor in all software and
hardware
Certainly would explain our immigration policy as of late.
d..._at_geer.org wrote:
>Greg Perry writes:
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> |
> | Not to mention the entire IOS tree ended up on some Russian web site,
> | and the source and cross-compilation environment for IOS 11.3(t) has
> | been floating around underground circles for almost 10 years. Cisco's
> | new IOS will make things worse, as the OS environment will be same
> | across all hardware platforms with a unified API. What's interesting
> | about this FCC backdoor initiative is how it's worded, there will likely
> | be an "official" backdoor included within communications products, as
> | well as classified 0day exploit development for those comms platforms to
> | pop the box without using the official backdoor.
> |
>
>
>If the effective perimeter of an entity is the
>reach of its remote management, then the US perim
>is the installed base of products with this back door.
>Ditto Chinese perim, etc. This seems another restatement
>that in a world without physical borders it is, as a
>matter of logic, equivalent to say that you are outside
>every country or inside every country.
>
>--dan
>
>
>
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