Re: [TSCM-L] Re: Feds move to include backdoor in all software and hardware

From: <d..._at_geer.org>
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 15:17:48 -0500

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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