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How Cisco Is Trying To Prove It Can Keep NSA Spies Out of Its Gear (csoonline.com)
itwbennett writes: A now infamous photo [leaked by Edward Snowden] showed NSA employees around a box labeled Cisco during a so-called 'interdiction' operation, one of the spy agency's most productive programs,' writes Jeremy Kirk. 'Once that genie is out of the bottle, it's a hell of job to put it back in,' said Steve Durbin, managing director of the Information Security Forum in London. Yet that's just what Cisco is trying to do, and early next year, the company plans to open a facility in the Research Triangle Park in North Carolina where customers can test and inspect source code in a secure environment. But, considering that a Cisco router might have 30 million lines of code, proving a product hasn't been tampered with by spy agencies is like trying 'to prove the non-existence of god,' says Joe Skorupa, a networking and communications analyst with Gartner.
More like "the devil", in this case.
The descent of Big Bang Theory into the Friends zone is complete. Sad.
In a router??? Bullshit. Windows 10 don't have 30 million lines of code.
Yea but a Cisco router actually does work...
If you add enough protocols you'll eventually get there ?
New things are always on the horizon