I think the biggest implication is how far they're willing to go to compromise commerical hardware. This could ruin Juniper, a large US company. It's insane that the government allowed them to do this.
The first thing I think of is phone basebands. If they're hacking enterprise firewalls I have to assume they've already exploited the baseband in the vast majority of phones. It's the one place they can stick a software plant over the airwaves.
I think it's time to call for open source basebands, anything else just isn't safe anymore.
The first thing I think of is phone basebands. If they're hacking enterprise firewalls I have to assume they've already exploited the baseband in the vast majority of phones. It's the one place they can stick a software plant over the airwaves.
I think it's time to call for open source basebands, anything else just isn't safe anymore.