huawei

Fri Jun 14 01:58:42 UTC 2013

On 6/13/13, Patrick W. Gilmore <patrick at ianai.net> wrote:
> It should be trivial to prove to yourself the box is, or is not, doing
> something evil if you actually try.

What if it's not doing anything evil  99% of the time... after all
90%+ of traffic may be of no interest to a potential adversary, but
there is a backdoor mechanism that allows "targetted evilness"  to be
enabled?

Sniffing on a targetted IP address can be disguised as "legitimate"
return traffic, to a connection actually initiated from the "backdoor
data interaction point" to some other web server,  creating a ruse..

A low-bandwidth fabricated  return flow  on top of the legitimate
return flow once every few months, or every few days is extremely
likely to go unnoticed,  on any  network that has a significantly
large amount of normal production traffic.

> --
> TTFN,
> patrick
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-JH