Snowden leak: Cavium networking hardware may contain NSA backdoor

Re:Snowden leak: Cavium networking hardware may contain NSA ... by ElectricalUnion on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @11:10AM (#37571026)

If anything, you probably need several layers of different, non-aligned country vendors to have some Swiss cheese model security. So some Huawei stuff, somewhere, as long as it isn't only Huawei stuff.

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Re:Snowden leak: Cavium networking hardware may contain NSA ... by arecurrence on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @11:21AM (#37571205)

This is a great idea in that they’ll likely also patch their stuff when they discover the other team has exploited it.

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Re:Snowden leak: Cavium networking hardware may contain NSA ... by J_Shelby_J on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @11:16AM (#37571119)

lmao it's like using a multi-hop VPN to hop through multiple jurisdictions, but in your own home!

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Re:Snowden leak: Cavium networking hardware may contain NSA ... by phatfish on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @12:50PM (#37572699)

Network designs i have seen often include this for much the same reason. A perimeter firewall is from one vendor and an internal firewall is from another. If there is a security issue with one device the other should not be effected in the same way.

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Re:Snowden leak: Cavium networking hardware may contain NSA ... by slt2021 on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @01:01PM (#37572884)

checkpoint firewall (Israel), PAN/fortinet firewall (US), and huawei firewall (china) daisy chained - should keep each other in sync and provide defense in depth :D

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