huawei
Jay Ashworth
jra at baylink.com
Fri Jun 14 16:39:02 UTC 2013
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Eugen Leitl" <eugen at leitl.org>
> On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 10:34:28AM -0600, Phil Fagan wrote:
> > Yeah, I can't imagine there is any real magic there...mystical
> > protocol not seen over transport.
>
> Compromised NICs can leak info through side channels (timing) but
> it's too low bandwidth. For end user devices with backdoors
> (remote vulnerabilities are like sloppy backdoors) you could
> get away with 'it's just part of a botnet', perhaps.
And the scope can be pretty big... Oh, look! This VZW 4G hockey puck was
made by... ZTE. And it has a GPS receiver in it.
Cheers,
-- jra
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