JETPLOW

While chatting in #cisco on irc.freenode.net some interesting links started
getting posted to several NSA leaked documents that got released last night
at 3:17am

One of them that particularly caught my eye was JETPLOW.

http://leaksource.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/nsa-ant-jetplow.jpg

Wanted to open the door to discussion, opinions, comments.

There is also another leak related to Juniper called FEEDTHROUGH

http://leaksource.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/nsa-ant-feedthrough.jpg

Apparently these leaks are just now hitting main stream and there are dozens
more just like them for every major vendor.

The question that keeps repeating in my head is, If the NSA can compromise
corporate firewalls through the use of these backdoor technologies, than
what is to prevent other countries from doing the same with malicious
intent? After all these are the very types of hardware that typically
protect the power grid infrastructure, financial systems, hospitals, etc.

-Matt

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Received on Mon Dec 30 2013 - 15:59:39 ART