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Bypassing VPN encryption is only broadly useful if you can get access to packets in transit. Nation-state agencies are the only actors that probably already hav
by beambot 11y ago
Bypassing VPN encryption is only broadly useful if you can get access to packets in transit. Nation-state agencies are the only actors that probably already have such wiretaps. (As discussed here: https://www.imperialviolet.org/2015/12/19/juniper.html https://www.imperialviolet.org/2015/12/19/juniper.html)
- umanwizard 11y agoNon-nation-states could still get access to a reduced set of packets. I can sit next to you in a coffee shop with public wifi and see everything in the clear if I can decrypt your VPN. Also, maybe they never intended to use it, and just wanted to make their company look bad.
- csandreasen 11y agoIs this guy sitting in a coffee shop with a 2U rackmount ScreenOS-based hardware VPN connected to his laptop? If not, this particular attack that the article is discussing wouldn't work.
- JaRail 11y agoI choose to blame Comcast -- with that backdoor in place, they have the resources to decrypt about... 300 gb/month per customer of traffic. Very interesting :D