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>I hope the companies listed -- Dell, Cisco, Juniper, IBM, Western Digital, Seagate, Maxtor, et al -- are happy with themselves. I'm not going to say that thes
by EFruit 13y ago
>I hope the companies listed -- Dell, Cisco, Juniper, IBM, Western Digital, Seagate, Maxtor, et al -- are happy with themselves.
I'm not going to say that these companies are fantastic. I'm just not, but I will say that perhaps this isn't really their fault.
Let's say that BIND has a critical vulnerability that allows people to snoop on the requests made. Does that make the ISC guilty of giving the NSA access to every BIND DNS server on the internet?
No, it doesn't.
- joe_the_user 13y agoThe question is whether these exploits are accidents or the result of companies giving in to pressure from the NSA. If the Snowden revelations are to be believed, at least some of the exploits were the result of giving into NSA pressure. But the problem with this is that it breaks the chain of trust that a company has with it's customers. Once you know the NSA is applying pressure secretly to force some vulnerabilities to remain open, how can you know they aren't doing that with any given vulnerability.
- Spooky23 13y agoMy guess is that it's all of the above. You're talking about a massive, compartmentalized organization. I'm sure that different groups approach their data acquisition activities with multiple channels, if for no reason other than to prevent other NSA people from knowing about to what they are doing.