> So what, you want evidence that the backdoor is delibrate?

If the title of the article is "backdoor found", then yeah. I'm of the opinion that it was an intentional backdoor too, I think that was a pretty clear possibility to anyone who saw the initial writeup. But to come out and claim unambiguously that it was a backdoor is masquerading an opinion as news.

This. A good example is Cisco's predilection to add "undocumented accounts" to it's routers. Those are definitely intentional backdoors.

https://m.slashdot.org/story/343674

Yeah, I've always found it entertaining that their corporate culture is characterized by a unique multi-decade inability to stop those darn engineers from writing backdoor accounts.

It would be more entertaining if I thought other vendors were less likely to be compromised[1].

[1] https://www.wired.com/2015/12/researchers-solve-the-juniper-...

>you want proof that the backdoor is deliberate?

Seems like a very reasonable request.

The strictly local nature of this "backdoor" strongly suggests that it is not in fact a backdoor, if you're going to call it a backdoor maybe you should have the least bit of evidence to support that.