huawei
Jimmy Hess
mysidia at gmail.com
Sat Jun 15 11:57:16 UTC 2013
On 6/15/13, Scott Helms <khelms at zcorum.com> wrote:
> They're terrible places for gathering non-targeted information because the
> amount of data flowing through them means that that the likelihood of any
> give packet having any value is very very low. If the goal includes
[snip]
The probability of a low-likelihood or infrequent event approaches
100%, given sufficient time, persistence, and creativity. Even if
1% or less of packets passing through are interesting; that happens
to be more than enough to provide a snoop gains, and cause damage to
a legitimate user.
The potential existence of 'better' options; doesn't mean backdooring
of routers wouldn't be included in part of a nation state or other bad
actor's backdooring program.
--
-JH
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