On Dec 31, 2013, at 12:00 AM, Ray Soucy <r...@maine.edu> wrote: > So this isn't an issue of the NSA working with Cisco and Juniper to include > back doors, it's an issue of the NSA modifying those releases after the fact > though BIOS implants.
Yes, I see this now, thanks. AFAICT, the Cisco boxes listed are ASAs and PIXes, which are essentially Linux PCs running a bunch of userland firewall stuff and which have BIOSes and so forth; they aren't routers/switches. I don't know much about Juniper gear, but it appears that the Juniper boxes listed are similar in nature, albeit running FreeBSD underneath (correction welcome). I know nothing at all about Huawei gear. Compromising PCs with persistent malware/rootkits is pretty routine, so this isn't really surprising, IMHO. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Roland Dobbins <rdobb...@arbor.net> // <http://www.arbornetworks.com> Luck is the residue of opportunity and design. -- John Milton
