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Country that put backdoors into Cisco routers to spy on world bans foreign routers (www.theregister.com)
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[–] 16 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I mean... supply chain hardening has been a concern for most of the three letter agencies (and governments around the world) for years. There are very serious concerns over how basically every NIC comes out of a factory in China and what the implications of that are.

If DoD actually do have a list of vetted and hardened products, that WOULD be a very good baseline for if you care about security at all. Less so from the US government, but that can then be compared against similar lists from other countries.

And considering that basically every TLA has the same concerns, if those orgs are willing to spend their budget? DoE and the like ain't gonna complain.

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  • [–] 22 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    I do care about cybersecurity, but I'm well past a point with the Trump administration where it's possible to take even the few good-sounding things coming out of it at face value. I don't believe for a second Trump or anyone in his cabinet values cybersecurity over: jingoistic "Made in America" posturing to his audience, enforcing a monopoly on spying on US citizens, giving as much power as possible to the two departments he's most heavily and illegally abusing, and using this as more "trade war" bullshit where multinational corporations can personally bribe him to get whitelisted.

    I might celebrate this if we had a POTUS who hadn't demonstrated over and over for a decade that everything they do is a ploy to turn the US into a kleptofascist hellscape.

    I agree with you; your concerns are rational. I don't think you or I share them with the Trump administration.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    If DoD actually do have a list of vetted and hardened products, that WOULD be a very good baseline for if you care about security at all.

    Only if there's independent verification that they are actually hardened and not backdoored. Certain US TLAs have been known to lie about these matters-- consider NSA's attempts to slip backdoors into some crypto standards a few years ago.

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