[163694] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: huawei
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Fri Jun 14 12:39:10 2013
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 12:39:02 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <20130614064746.GA22824@leitl.org>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Eugen Leitl" <eugen@leitl.org>
> On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 10:34:28AM -0600, Phil Fagan wrote:
> > Yeah, I can't imagine there is any real magic there...mystical
> > protocol not seen over transport.
>
> Compromised NICs can leak info through side channels (timing) but
> it's too low bandwidth. For end user devices with backdoors
> (remote vulnerabilities are like sloppy backdoors) you could
> get away with 'it's just part of a botnet', perhaps.
And the scope can be pretty big... Oh, look! This VZW 4G hockey puck was
made by... ZTE. And it has a GPS receiver in it.
Cheers,
-- jra
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