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

From: kondrak <kon..._at_phreaker.net>
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 11:18:01 -0500
The keys to the Cisco routers for starters. China pirated them and build their own routers with Cisco firmware. By reverse engineering, they now have defacto, the ability to intrude into every Cisco router using that IOS.



At 09:25 2/3/2006, you wrote:

What keys?

The original CALEA wiretap system was (allegedly) a standalone Solaris 5 machine sitting on every CO's voice network, with a default root account and password and a modem hanging off of the console port.  Dial in, listen to whatever.  FBI and DEA agents investigating drug rings were being wiretapped themselves, now they want to include a backdoor in every communication device.

kondrak wrote:

Worst part, is they've given all the keys to the kingdom to the Commie Chinese.


At 23:05 2/2/2006, you wrote:



 |
 | The rule isn't yet final, but once it is, all vendors will have 18
 | months to comply. And in fact, says Brad Templeton, chairman of the
 | Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), some router makers already include
 | such a backdoor. So your hardware may be vulnerable.
 |

Another reason to roll your own, which is all I'm gonna say.


--dan

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