[Full-disclosure] Chinese backdoors "hidden in router firmware"

Jerome Jar iusr.jar at gmail.com
Thu Mar 6 05:29:06 GMT 2008


OK, only if hidden backdoors are also part of their function specs...

I have friends in a router manufacturer. Besides basic functionalities
that a router must have, they usually have to deal with some
ridiculous requirements from customers. Mmmm, I also start to suspect
the customers *want* their backdoors ;-)

On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 12:28 PM,  <Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:38:27 +0800, Jerome Jar said:
>  > Come on, where are the evidences? Sounds pretty much like racialism.
>  >
>  > Usually the engineers are having a hard time on even getting the
>  > routers and switches functional for mass market; there won't be any
>  > time left for them to plant well hidden backdoors.
>
>  But that's the proof right there - the reason *why* they have so much
>  trouble getting the damned things to work is because they have to work
>  around the backdoors in the device... ;)
>



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