18 Dec
2015
18 Dec
'15
12:03 p.m.
On 18 Dec 2015, at 11:52, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
On 18 Dec 2015, at 7:28, Dave Taht wrote:
I think "unauthorized code" is still plausible newspeak for "bug".
Why blame finger foo when you can blame terrorists?
It looks like two different holes, one a back door for unauthorized console login and one to somehow leak VPN encryption keys. There are hints that that latter involved tinkering with certain constants in the crypto (https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/677871004354371584); that would squarely point the finger at some government's intelligence agency.
I don't know who did it, but neither 'bug' nor 'developer debugging code' sounds plausible here.