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I noticed the same thing with Cisco vulns a while back. How many times do you hard code credentials before it becomes an intentional backdoor rather than neglig

• manquer 4y ago
  It is more the corporate culture on how security is treated . Sure it is might convenient for NSA who probably use it when it is found , but is less likely that company of cisco size can intentionally do something like that coordinated and keep it secret too.
  • tinus_hn 4y ago
    Or perhaps the researchers are just looking for vulnerabilities similar to the last one found.
  • danuker 4y ago
    Perhaps only companies of Cisco size are useful to the NSA, otherwise they have too many errands to run in order to manage companies' PRISM hooks.
• saagarjha 4y ago
  If you keep finding bedbugs in your house it doesn’t mean someone is intentionally putting them there. It just means that it’s really hard to get rid of all of them and more pop up naturally.
  • bobkazamakis 4y ago
    alternatively you just haven't found what keeps attracting these bed bugs, like easy prey.
    • xmprt 4y ago
      That still doesn't make the bed bugs intentional.
  • LudwigNagasena 4y ago
    Sure, but that’s two totally different situations with different contexts.
• fulafel 4y ago
  Negligence as a term implies liability. But there's mostly no liability in software for some reason.