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Re: Juniper breach mystery starts to clear with new details on hackers and U.S. role

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This is ground breaking. The NSA made Juniper use a backdoored algorithm, and a foreign adversary hacked into Juniper and changed the backdoor key (essentially). That's surreal.

This smacks way more of "well, what did you expect would happen?" than surrealism. If you introduce a vulnerability, it is nothing but hubris to think that you'll be the only one to leverage the vulnerability.

Re: Juniper breach mystery starts to clear with new details on hackers and U.S. role

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This is a great example of why more operators should adopt white box solutions.

Open- and FreeBSD deserve more usage

Well, JunOS is FreeBSD -- the magic is in their proprietary hardware. I'm not aware of open/whitebox solutions that can compete

Re: Juniper breach mystery starts to clear with new details on hackers and U.S. role

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We are playing with a slippery slope! A backdoor is a backdoor. Honestly it is getting to the point where open source is the only way to go - imo.

I'd like to be able to perform SAST scans and code review on all software that protects my enclaves.

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