@fishos It is emphatically not common knowledge. I'm reading everyone asserting that such and such governments have backdoors on phones or whatever device, but you're the first person to cite an example. If you have more, I would appreciate you sharing those.
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fishos@lemmy.world 9 months agoI was under the impression it was was common knowledge/rumor that Cisco hardware all has a US installed backdoor. Huawai having a backdoor specifically wasn’t the big revelation/concern. It was that it was Chinese/foreign government controlled. Everyone puts backdoors in, it’s just a matter of only having friendly backdoors you can control.
GadolElohai@kbin.social 9 months ago
fishos@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Let me do some digging and try to find you some sources when I’m not stuck at work. I know there are Wikipedia articles for the literal rooms inside of telecoms that are known to be government taps into telecom and internet infrastructure. I just can’t remember the room names off the top of my head. I’ll come back with a few different sources to hopefully get you going down the right rabbit hole.
GadolElohai@kbin.social 9 months ago
YoorWeb@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Cisco backdoors are common knowledge though:
GadolElohai@kbin.social 9 months ago
ryathal@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
The rumor probably exists, but the US seems to just bully companies into getting access rather than building back doors into equipment, based on available evidence. They do maintain unpublished 0 day exploits though, so it could also be both.