huawei

Mark Gallagher markwgallagher at gmail.com
Thu Jun 13 17:35:43 UTC 2013


I think one of the possibilities suggested beyond call-home or backdoors
was that they might have installed a secret kill-switch to be activated
against 'enemy' nodes in time of war was an cyber shock and awe campaign.

mg





On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 8:24 PM, Michael Thomas <mike at mtcc.com> wrote:

> On 06/13/2013 10:20 AM, Scott Helms wrote:
>
>>
>> Not really, no one has claimed it's impossible to hide traffic.   What is
>> true is that it's not feasible to do so at scale without it becoming
>> obvious.   Steganography is great for hiding traffic inside of legitimate
>> traffic between two hosts but if one of my routers starts sending cay
>> photos somewhere, no matter how cute, I'm gonna consider that suspicious.
>>  That's an absurd example (hopefully funny) but _any_ from one of my
>> routers over time would be obvious, especially since to be effective this
>> would have to go on much of the time and in many routers.  Hiding all that
>> isn't feasible for a really technically astute company and they're not in
>> that category yet (IMO).
>>
>>
> It all depends on what you're trying to accomplish. Hijacking many cat
> photos to
> send your cat photo... how deep is your DPI?
>
> Remember also, the answer to the universe fits in 6 bits...
>
> Mike
>
>



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