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

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Message-ID: <4ef5fec60803051620s6d7fd7f7j2c92601765375730@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 16:20:02 -0800
From: coderman <coderman@...il.com>
To: "Ivan ." <ivanhec@...il.com>
Cc: Untitled <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Chinese backdoors "hidden in router firmware"

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Ivan . <ivanhec@...il.com> wrote:
> wouldn't be the first time that National intelligence agencies have
>  comprised IT gear

true; i just meant that an elaborate back door isn't even necessary
when the front door lock can be bumped open (titan rain :)

the athens affair is another fun example of the folly of running
arbitrary and un tested / audited code on your infrastructure...

http://spectrum.ieee.org/print/5280

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