[Cryptography] GHCQ Penetration of Belgacom
dan at geer.org
dan at geer.org
Sun Dec 28 08:46:45 EST 2014
> Of course, we can't know if lower-abstraction-level exploits are
> being mounted today - but are so well hidden that we never detect
> them. But the exist ence of state-of-the-art attack mechanisms
> like Stuxnet and Darkhotel - none of which go deeper than the OS
> - argues that if lower-level attacks are being mounted, they are
> being mounted by the most sophisticated parties in extremely unusual
> and specialized circumstances.
So, what should one assume w.r.t. infrastructure, e.g., should some
level of the military-industrial complex plan as if all the biggest
Cisco backbone routers contain an intentionally placed sensitivity
to a kill packet? What would such a plan involve if not alternatives
to the Internet?
One might as well ask why we bother tracking incoming asteroids...
--dan
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