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Note how information about Operation Aurora always carefully stops just short of saying that any source code was modified. Whereas the NYT story is not a state
by marshray 11y ago
Note how information about Operation Aurora always carefully stops just short of saying that any source code was modified.
Whereas the NYT story is not a statement from a vendor.
- nostrademons 11y agoTechnically, this announcement also stops short of saying that any source code was modified. It just says that they "discovered unauthorized code in ScreenOS that could allow a knowledgeable attacker to gain administrative access to NetScreen® devices and to decrypt VPN connections". We all interpret that as a hacker having placed a backdoor there, just as we interpret the Operation Aurora announcement as the Chinese government placing a backdoor in GMail and the NYTimes article as the NSA placing a backdoor in Huawei routers. We are probably not wrong in this assumption. But the same CYA deniability is in all three.