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

From: Greg Perry <gr..._at_liveammo.com>
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 14:43:14 -0500

Then there is the entirely different topic of hardware-level backdoors
implemented in memory and microprocessors/CPUs themselves.

kondrak wrote:

> 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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