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Re:Nation state backdoor found in Cisco firewalls (again..?)... by jiggawatts on Sunday April 28, 2024 @07:38AM (#40187837)
Juniper included the back-doored EC-DRBG algorithm into their VPN products on the orders of the NSA, so this kind of behaviour is not without precedent.

Unless you're a very senior staff member, at the director level, you would not be privy to these kinds of orders. It would implemented without the knowledge of the vast majority of the staff.

Your ignorance of a backdoor is not evidence of its absence.

Re:Nation state backdoor found in Cisco firewalls (again..?)... by sekh60 on Sunday April 28, 2024 @07:48AM (#40187896)
That was kinda their point. They weren't denying that one exists, just pointing out that the Cisco response that it was for support use was laughable.
Re:Nation state backdoor found in Cisco firewalls (again..?)... by jiggawatts on Sunday April 28, 2024 @08:51AM (#40188236)
Cisco never claimed it was for support use. It was more than some support techs knew about the back door, and were using it unofficially for their own convenience.

The official statement, if I remember correctly, was brief, vaguely worded, and amount to: "We can't say anything, every US vendor is in the same boat as us, stop asking".