Juniper Networks will drop code tied to National Security Agency

Re:Juniper Networks will drop code tied to National Security... by DyslexicAtheist on Saturday January 09, 2016 @09:10AM (#10871282)

any mobile operator that uses Nokia (NSN) equipment would have a massive part of the core network set up with Juniper gear. These things are not "swapped" out for years and given the NDA's and secretive nature of telecoms I doubt that anything Juniper does here will make a difference to these systems already in place.

Keep in mind that the number of companies that supply equipment here are very few:

- Huawei - Alcatel-Lucent (soon to be part of Nokia) - Ericsson - Nokia

so chances that your operator is using Nokia equipment is pretty high (especially in Europe, and large parts of Asia)

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Re:Juniper Networks will drop code tied to National Security... by ju-st on Saturday January 09, 2016 @10:41AM (#10871570)

I would say having Juniper gear is an advantage because at least some backdoors are now uncovered and will be closed. And I think a firmware update would be enough, no need to physically swap the routers.

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Re:Juniper Networks will drop code tied to National Security... by enlightenedfool on Saturday January 09, 2016 @11:21AM (#10871749)

This is exactly what NSA wants you to think while they have another more secretive backdoor in.

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Re:Juniper Networks will drop code tied to National Security... by pkinsky on Saturday January 09, 2016 @01:15PM (#10872204)

Maybe, but a more secretive backdoor would probably not be used as often (to avoid risk of discovery).

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Re:Juniper Networks will drop code tied to National Security... by TeMPOraL on Saturday January 09, 2016 @02:23PM (#10872463)

That is exactly what the NSA wants you to think. ;).

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Re:Juniper Networks will drop code tied to National Security... by dafrankenstein2 on Saturday January 09, 2016 @02:37PM (#10872515)

NSA loop

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Re:Juniper Networks will drop code tied to National Security... by prolepunk on Saturday January 09, 2016 @12:02PM (#10871925)

I wouldn't believe them unless they are going to open source the code, but I'm not their customer anyways, and I doubt big telcos really care about privacy all that much.

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