NSA able to compromise Cisco, Juniper, Huawei switches

Wed Jan 1 00:10:45 UTC 2014

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On 12/31/2013 4:02 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:

 > * Warren Bailey:
 >
 >> Explaining, not a denial written by their legal department. I find it
 >> insanely difficult to believe cisco systems has a backdoor into some of
 >> their product lines with no knowledge or participation.
 >
 > As far as I understand it, these are firmware tweaks or implants
 > sitting on a privileged bus (think PCI with busmaster DMA).  Such
 > things can be added after the device has left the factory by a
 > sufficiently knowledgeable third party.
 >

That's really interesting. Where are these Cisco devices manufactured?

- - ferg

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