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Iran is claiming that US manufactured equipment was manipulated using backdoors during the bombing runs. (Relevant to the upcoming network equipment bans here) (web.archive.org)
posted 48 days ago by theaustrianpainter 48 days ago by theaustrianpainter +32 / -0
Iran claims US used backdoors in networking equipment
: And China is loving it
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– KekistanPM 21 points 48 days ago +21 / -0

Me: Uses adblockers, VPN and a firewall that blocks most windows telemetry just for pleasant browsing experiences and a little more privacy.

Big tech: "Terrorist! Terrorist!"

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– CaptainTrouble 16 points 48 days ago +16 / -0

Government: meh who cares, we have total access through a backdoor at the hardware level anyway.

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– PM-Melania-feet-pics 5 points 48 days ago +5 / -0

Oy vey goyim it's literally six million holocausts if you don't let us violate your privacy in every way

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– ParadigmShift2070 13 points 48 days ago +13 / -0

What? Does us even make network equipments, are they all made in China with Chinese backdoors

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– ScallionPancake 1 point 48 days ago +1 / -0

Software

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– fauxgnaws 13 points 48 days ago +13 / -0

either rebooted or disconnected during recent attacks on Iran – despite the regime disconnecting the nation from the global internet.

Are they not aware that any Starlink or any other terminal smuggled into the country can give access to their internet from outside? They actually thought just unplugging the undersea cable would protect them?

can be activated by a signal from a satellite

"Why is there a satellite receiver on our Cisco switch?" is not something they thought of until now? It's not something you can hide in a BIOS or even in a chip, it'd be huge and obvious to anybody that looked.

I heard Persians were supposed to be smart.

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– SophiesBoyfriend 9 points 48 days ago +9 / -0

I assume it only requires one CIA asset in Iran with a starlink on his house and they can control anything connected to it.

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– AntonioOfVenice 2 points 48 days ago +2 / -0

Are they not aware that any Starlink or any other terminal smuggled into the country can give access to their internet from outside? They actually thought just unplugging the undersea cable would protect them?

Iran is allegedly jamming Starlink as well.

"Why is there a satellite receiver on our Cisco switch?" is not something they thought of until now? It's not something you can hide in a BIOS or even in a chip, it'd be huge and obvious to anybody that looked.

Good point. Rare W for you.

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– Kaarous 9 points 48 days ago +9 / -0

Wanna tell me how you "jam" a time dilated LE orbit KA band with signalization the size of a raindrop?

Their entire country would have be a black hole of static, IF they could actually do that. Nevermind the power constraints. You would be able to physically hear it.

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– cccpneveragain 1 point 48 days ago +1 / -0

I wouldn't go so far as to even suggest the US military would even need to resort to Starlink. There's been military satellites since there were satellites at all. Smuggle one operative in with a random device of a random frequency band that just isn't thought of. You could encode enough communication in something as low frequency as an FM radio signal to be able to trigger a backdoor if the hardware was already there and knew to look for it.

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– ScallionPancake 1 point 48 days ago +1 / -0

"Why is there a satellite receiver on our Cisco switch?" is not something they thought of until now? It's not something you can hide in a BIOS or even in a chip, it'd be huge and obvious to anybody that looked.

That's retarded. Why would you put a satellite receiver in hardware that you can just command it to shut off at a future time before you launch the attack? Do you guys have no idea how computers work? lol.

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– fauxgnaws 1 point 48 days ago +1 / -0

That's the point... their excuses don't make any sense. We wouldn't put hardware in there that can be triggered by satellite when a simple hack will do.

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– Kaarous 5 points 48 days ago +5 / -0

Former Army Satcom here.

Yeah that's exactly what happened.

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– The_Shadow_of_Intent 3 points 48 days ago +3 / -0

"Maybe we shouldn't have done the free upgrade to Windows 11"

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– TotalTrannyDeath2 2 points 48 days ago +2 / -0

https://youtu.be/EPfsr8BBdA8?si=9HHbCFViOg1VmjZd

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– deleted 1 point 47 days ago +1 / -0

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