Re:NSA-style backdoor in Huawei laptops found by Microsoft
by monocasa on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @02:35PM
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This. A good example is Cisco's predilection to add "undocumented accounts" to it's routers. Those are definitely intentional backdoors.
Re:NSA-style backdoor in Huawei laptops found by Microsoft
by __jal on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @02:54PM
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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-...
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.