Finally, an industrial-scale "Single Packet Authentication" implementation - https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/25/mysterious_backdoor_juniper_routers/ #security #backdoors #portknocking #singlepacketauthentication #SPA

Reminds me of my own "Why Not Use Port Knocking" (2012) https://nxdomain.no/~peter/why_not_use_port_knocking.html (part of the Hail Mary Cloud sequence, summarized at https://nxdomain.no/~peter/hailmary_lessons_learned.html)

Someone is slipping a hidden backdoor into Juniper routers across the globe, activated by a magic packet

Who could be so interested in chips, manufacturing, and more, in the US, UK, Europe, Russia...

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