Snowden leak: Cavium networking hardware may contain NSA backdoor
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Re: Snowden leak: Cavium networking hardware may contain NSA backdoor
#2How the NSA successfully manage to prevent the Washington Post and friends from discovering and reporting on this malicious backdoor? They've been sitting on these documents for a decade. Are the journalists just that *uncurious* about the deep contents of the documents they hold exclusive access to? Was this some kind of organizational failing?
Re: Snowden leak: Cavium networking hardware may contain NSA backdoor
#3They are now part of Marvell Technology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavium
Wonder if agreeing to enable NSA backdoors they agreed to be compensated when eventually that fact is leaked. "If nobody starts buying your chips, don't worry, we will! ... and then promptly throw them into the recycling bin"
Also interesting is if Marvell knew their acquired tech had this "cool feature".
Re: Snowden leak: Cavium networking hardware may contain NSA backdoor
#4They are now part of Marvell Technology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavium Wonder if agreeing to enable NSA backdoors they agreed to be compensated when eventually that fact is leaked. "If nobody starts buying your chips, don't worry, we will! ... and then promptly throw them into the recycling bin" Also interesting is if Marvell knew their acquired tech had this "cool feature".
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Re: Snowden leak: Cavium networking hardware may contain NSA backdoor
#5Mastodon link for those so inclined: https://ioc.exchange/@matthew_d_green/111091979256440306
Re: Snowden leak: Cavium networking hardware may contain NSA backdoor
#6The tweet seems to imply that the entire Ubiquiti Networks line of network hardware could be compromised.
That's a shame; I was thinking of installing some in my house.
I'm sure that Ubiquiti's customers will not be happy if they find out that the US Govt can access their private data.
Re: Snowden leak: Cavium networking hardware may contain NSA backdoor
#7On a technical level this wouldn't be too surprising. Cavium hardware has things like configurable/programmable in hardware hashing of packets which can then be used by the (much slower, but in the Cavium case numerous) CPUs to decide how to handle it. Their SoCs contain enough that hiding something on there would not be impossible, and using the hashing/routing etc. that enabled performance requires trusting blobs from Cavium.
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Re: Snowden leak: Cavium networking hardware may contain NSA backdoor
#10How the NSA successfully manage to prevent the Washington Post and friends from discovering and reporting on this malicious backdoor? They've been sitting on these documents for a decade. Are the journalists just that *uncurious* about the deep contents of the documents they hold exclusive access to? Was this some kind of organizational failing?
Do you think there was a list in the document neatly titled “NSA_BACKDOORS_DONT_SHARE” or something?