Snowden and Compilers
Bill Stewart
bill.stewart at pobox.com
Thu Feb 13 00:36:28 PST 2014
At 06:42 PM 2/12/2014, Peter Gutmann wrote:
> >http://www.livehacking.com/tag/network-card-backdoor/
> >
> >Proof of concept was been proven in 2010. Practical application
> is probably
> >being done by now. Somebody is asleep behind the wheel if it is not.
>
>It was demonstrated well before then, Arrigo Triulzi had demonstrated running
>an SSH server inside a NIC several years earlier.
Back in the mid-80s I ran a secure computer center (with a huge VAX 11/780 :-)
and the Army/DoD/NIST rules for secure computers needed to know who wrote the
channel programs that the computer was using. Channels were a mainframe thing,
which predated the VAX; the closest equivalent we had was a KMC11 processor
that sat in the Unibus and handled interrupts and cooked-mode input
for the serial cards.
So yes, proofs of concept have been around for a while :-)
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