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do you have any link with info about cisco backdooring?

higherpurpose 12y ago
Cisco is the one that came up with the "legal intercept" backdoor IETF protocol for routers. There have also been "mistakes" where Cisco had remote access to people's routers, when they upgraded them to new firmware. There were some Snowden revelations about Cisco routers being backdoors as well, although without specifically putting the same on Cisco, just on NSA putting the backdoors in Cisco's factory, with which I'm sure Cisco had no relation.
- fragmede 12y ago
  I make no claims of whether or not Cisco at large is in bed with the NSA, but you must admit a government mole secretly working in the factory to install backdoored firmware is not the same thing as the NSA going to Cisco's CEO and 'convincing' Cisco that installing backdoored firmware at the factory is in their best interests.
mtmail 12y ago
It made news around May when Glenn Greenwald's book came out https://airvpn.org/topic/11564-fyi-nsa-actively-installed-spyware-on-cisco-routers/ https://airvpn.org/topic/11564-fyi-nsa-actively-installed-sp...
kw71 12y ago
I can tell you that Cisco has no scruples at all. During the course of my seven years employment at Cisco Systems, I came along on sales calls to the Chinese Government where the staff (some in police or military uniforms) were very candid to my American coworkers (a VP and two sales reps) and I about their goals of censorship and identification of troublemakers. During a visit to a SARFT operations center in central Beijing I was asked to explain some details about how Cisco hardware and software products could assist in their mission. The Chinese even mentioned Falun Gong by name and indicated that they were a source of embarrassment that had to be cleansed from the old and new media. I don't know what came of that visit, but months later the VP nominated me to my manager for an internal award because of my assistance on that trip; I got a framed certificate and a monetary bonus (one of many I got from Cisco.) As an American I'm rather ashamed to have participated in such.
- leoc 12y ago
  Have you heard of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilgour%E2%80%93Matas_report https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilgour%E2%80%93Matas_report ? If what you are saying is true then I would urge you to talk to a journalist about it.

Cisco is the one that came up with the "legal intercept" backdoor IETF protocol for routers. There have also been "mistakes" where Cisco had remote access to people's routers, when they upgraded them to new firmware. There were some Snowden revelations about Cisco routers being backdoors as well, although without specifically putting the same on Cisco, just on NSA putting the backdoors in Cisco's factory, with which I'm sure Cisco had no relation.

fragmede 12y ago
I make no claims of whether or not Cisco at large is in bed with the NSA, but you must admit a government mole secretly working in the factory to install backdoored firmware is not the same thing as the NSA going to Cisco's CEO and 'convincing' Cisco that installing backdoored firmware at the factory is in their best interests.

mtmail 12y ago

It made news around May when Glenn Greenwald's book came out https://airvpn.org/topic/11564-fyi-nsa-actively-installed-spyware-on-cisco-routers/ https://airvpn.org/topic/11564-fyi-nsa-actively-installed-sp...

kw71 12y ago

I can tell you that Cisco has no scruples at all. During the course of my seven years employment at Cisco Systems, I came along on sales calls to the Chinese Government where the staff (some in police or military uniforms) were very candid to my American coworkers (a VP and two sales reps) and I about their goals of censorship and identification of troublemakers. During a visit to a SARFT operations center in central Beijing I was asked to explain some details about how Cisco hardware and software products could assist in their mission. The Chinese even mentioned Falun Gong by name and indicated that they were a source of embarrassment that had to be cleansed from the old and new media. I don't know what came of that visit, but months later the VP nominated me to my manager for an internal award because of my assistance on that trip; I got a framed certificate and a monetary bonus (one of many I got from Cisco.) As an American I'm rather ashamed to have participated in such.

leoc 12y ago
Have you heard of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilgour%E2%80%93Matas_report https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilgour%E2%80%93Matas_report ? If what you are saying is true then I would urge you to talk to a journalist about it.