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Iran claims US exploited networking equipment backdoors during strikes

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by jeroenhd

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Surely they don't need backdoors when they can just exploit the awful network security that American networking equipment vendors already come with out of the box?
The US needed to smuggle Stuxnet in, but with networking equipment there's a treasure trove of shitty practices. Cisco and Juniper have been caught hiding hard-coded password how many times now?

by throwawayffffas

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by sinoue

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Facebook used to be known for their benefits & perks. Now it is known as San Quentin. I hope their top talent leaves in droves.

by Cluelessidoit

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by ungreased0675

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Turns out, a $14.5 Billion budget can buy some mind-bendingly awesome cyber effects.

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by TacticalCoder

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Which is why banning chinese routers and banning chinese cars than can be remotely disabled by the komrades makes sense.
Selling cars, worldwide, made sense when they weren't always connected to the mother land. Germans selling you a BMW in the 80s? You've got the key: you turn the key. They couldn't turn off all the BMWs if suddenly the US were to be at war with Germany again.
But this madness of cars receiving OTA updates and remote subscriptions and whatnots?

by aaron695

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by mugiseyebrows

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by rurban

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But why do have all these Intel ME, AMD PSP and ARM TrustZone / Secure Bootloader backdoors in all but RISC-V CPU's now, when they have to reboot poor stupid Jupiter, Cisco, Fortinet, and MikroTik devices? Oh, that's for the real enemies, the socialists. The ones with workers rights.

by Geof25

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So they burned through weapon stockpile and also through zero day stockpile. Good job, another strategic success which will help in war with China...