full-disclosure - Re: Chinese backdoors "hidden in router firmware"

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Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 13:29:06 +0800
From: "Jerome Jar" <iusr.jar@...il.com>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
Cc: full-disclosure <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Chinese backdoors "hidden in router firmware"

OK, only if hidden backdoors are also part of their function specs...

I have friends in a router manufacturer. Besides basic functionalities
that a router must have, they usually have to deal with some
ridiculous requirements from customers. Mmmm, I also start to suspect
the customers *want* their backdoors ;-)

On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 12:28 PM,  <Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu> wrote:
> On Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:38:27 +0800, Jerome Jar said:
>  > Come on, where are the evidences? Sounds pretty much like racialism.
>  >
>  > Usually the engineers are having a hard time on even getting the
>  > routers and switches functional for mass market; there won't be any
>  > time left for them to plant well hidden backdoors.
>
>  But that's the proof right there - the reason *why* they have so much
>  trouble getting the damned things to work is because they have to work
>  around the backdoors in the device... ;)
>

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