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For those here on Free Republic who have been frequent targets of hacking efforts... and who played a key role in exposing the "Solar Winds" exploit...

It appears others are becoming aware...

"Russians" my ass...

1 posted on 02/22/2021 12:21:07 AM PST by Sense
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A “trojan horse backdoor”?? Those are two different things.

A Trojan Horse is something coming through the front door pretending to be something else.

A backdoor is an opening left by a programmer.


2 posted on 02/22/2021 12:28:42 AM PST by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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the role NSA may have played in manipulating the U.S. civilian government technical standards development and approval process

I've posted this many times. The purpose of NSA technical reviews is to make sure our adversaries can not crack our encryption standards and also to slip in weaknesses that only they can also exploit, since our adversary's can also use these standards. It's not some simple backdoor that a Snowden can leak. It is a weakness that even if known, doesn't do our adversary's any good if they don't have the raw computing power and specialized algorithms to take advantage.

3 posted on 02/22/2021 1:53:08 AM PST by BiglyCommentary
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...pushing for widespread use of an encryption standard for which it had implanted a serious security design flaw.

Which standard? Are we talking AES? Something more specific like GCM or CCM?

4 posted on 02/22/2021 6:58:26 AM PST by Alas Babylon! ("You, the American people, are my only special interest." --President Donald J. Trump)
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Facebook used Crowd Sourcing.

The CIA and NSA use Cloud Sourcing.

6 posted on 02/22/2021 8:09:56 AM PST by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not my current tagline.)
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This person gets alot correct, but gets that point off. It was the Rooskis. However the big picture in this article is WHY our cyber supply chain is being compromised because we are allowing the government to approve contracts with companies that have security issues.

It happens all the time and for most part no one in the deep state does a damn thing. Thats because these companies give money to politicians in states that have a heavy tech business; such as Silicon Valley CA, west coast WA/OR, research traingle NC, etc. Its shameful.

When Trump banned Huawei and Tik Tok, for example, it ruffled alot of feathers. Dont expect such concern for our tax dollars or network security to come from the current admin.

7 posted on 02/22/2021 9:21:14 AM PST by KC_Conspirator
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Rd later.


8 posted on 02/22/2021 9:46:25 AM PST by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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