Peter Gutmann wrote:
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This is very scary. I bet that our Minister of the Interior would love
it, though, since he has been pushing a scheme for stealth examination
of suspects' computers (called "Federal Trojan"). Technology like this
would be a large first step towards making this possible.
[...]
- Built in web interface on every machine (port 16994)
Apart from all the other things that are wrong with this scheme,
* you can't trust the output of netstat anymore;
* in other words, what you see with netstat may not be the same as what
someone else sees with nmap; and
* if the web interface has a vulnerability, you have an unshutdownable
vulnerable service running on your machine.
Fun,
Stephan
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