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So what you're saying is it would be trivial for, say, a state actor to tap into the fiber optic cables and snoop for this unencrypted community strings going o
by therein 10y ago
So what you're saying is it would be trivial for, say, a state actor to tap into the fiber optic cables and snoop for this unencrypted community strings going over UDP? And then to use them to gain access to internal networks?
Well fuck, NSA was inside pretty much any corporate network they wanted then.
- jlgaddis 10y agoPretty much. See previous disclosures discussing how the NSA captures, for example, configuration files for Cisco devices passing over the Internet in e-mail, TFTP, etc. If you've sent a community string over the Internet, it's quite possible that they have it too.