[167934] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NSA able to compromise Cisco, Juniper, Huawei switches
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Warren Bailey)
Wed Jan 1 02:18:18 2014
From: Warren Bailey <wbailey@satelliteintelligencegroup.com>
To: "fergdawgster@mykolab.com" <fergdawgster@mykolab.com>, "nanog@nanog.org"
<nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2014 07:17:48 +0000
In-Reply-To: <52C35D05.7080303@mykolab.com>
Reply-To: Warren Bailey <wbailey@satelliteintelligencegroup.com>
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China. ;) lol
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From: Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster@mykolab.com>
Date: 12/31/2013 4:13 PM (GMT-08:00)
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: NSA able to compromise Cisco, Juniper, Huawei switches
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On 12/31/2013 4:02 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Warren Bailey:
>
>> Explaining, not a denial written by their legal department. I find it
>> insanely difficult to believe cisco systems has a backdoor into some of
>> their product lines with no knowledge or participation.
>
> As far as I understand it, these are firmware tweaks or implants
> sitting on a privileged bus (think PCI with busmaster DMA). Such
> things can be added after the device has left the factory by a
> sufficiently knowledgeable third party.
>
That's really interesting. Where are these Cisco devices manufactured?
- - ferg
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