[167946] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NSA able to compromise Cisco, Juniper, Huawei switches
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eugeniu Patrascu)
Wed Jan 1 16:51:38 2014
In-Reply-To: <20140101095537.GA21572@pob.ytti.fi>
Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2014 23:51:15 +0200
From: Eugeniu Patrascu <eugen@imacandi.net>
To: Saku Ytti <saku@ytti.fi>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 11:55 AM, Saku Ytti <saku@ytti.fi> wrote:
> On (2013-12-31 23:04 +0000), Warren Bailey wrote:
>
> > that RSA had a check cut for their participation (sell outs..), would i=
t
> > be out of the realm of possibility cisco knowingly placed this into the=
ir
> > product line? And would it be their mistake to come out with a =93we ha=
d no
> > idea!=94 rather than =93guys with badges and court orders made us do it=
!=94?
>
> Is this legal? Can NSA walk in to US based company and legally coerce to
> install such backdoor? If not, what is the incentive for private company =
to
> cooperate?
>
As you might have seen from the beginning of time, people in power assume
anything can go until proven otherwise.
