Cisco's Backdoor Problem Thinking about China's Communication Security

Even in the current period of 2012, the most we have said is "Made in China," not "Created in China." At this point, perhaps we really should not be eager to make progress. After all, it is necessary to change this phenomenon requires the training of talents, the country's strong support and so on. However, we should also realize that too many “Made in China” leads to the encounter with key core technologies. We still have to rely on foreign advanced resources and personnel, and this excessive dependence is undoubtedly a move to the Chinese market. If you push abroad, serious ones can even affect China's security in all aspects!

For example, the recent bustling Cisco back door incident. Do not know how much everyone knows about Cisco, Xiao Bian here with you about the general introduction. Cisco Systems, Inc. was formally established in December 1984 and is a leading provider of Internet solutions. Its equipment and software products are primarily used to connect computer network systems. The company is headquartered in San Jose, California. In 1986, Cisco's first multi-protocol router was introduced. In 1993, Cisco built the world’s first network of 1,000 routers, which has entered a period of rapid development.

Today, Cisco employs more than 4,000 people in China, including sales, customer support and services, R&D, business process operations and IT service outsourcing, and Cisco financing and manufacturing. Cisco has established 12 business branches in China and established a large R&D center in Shanghai. Cisco's banner has been inserted in several key areas of the country's core business, its customer list includes China's national financial data communications backbone network, China Telecom, China Unicom, Sinopec, the People's Bank of China, the Beijing Municipal Government and many other central enterprises and government departments.

what does this mean? This means that if one day, the United States has any attempt to China, they can fully use the back door in the Cisco operating system, in case of forgetting the password, enter the operating system by restoring the system's factory configuration, and manage the router configuration. If this newly-loaded software package is maliciously altered, a new software program or logic bomb is implanted. Once the system is restarted, there will be unpredictable security risks for single devices, entire networks, and entire network applications!

And all this, thanks to our unguarded and even welcome attitude toward Cisco.

There are too many core areas in China that use Cisco's equipment. Cisco, with its plaintext passwords and password backdoors, does not give us enough security. China's communications security is always threatened. Although Cisco does not actually make any excessive moves, it is impossible for people to prevent them. Do you have to wait until things really happen? Are we not sure that we were not careful at that time?

After all, Cisco and the U.S. military have close ties; after all, Cisco’s massive political contributions, government lobbying, and corporate executives serve in the government; after all, Cisco refuses to provide details of its R&D plans and cannot clear out its relationship with the U.S. military. : U.S. cyber warfare exercises use Cisco equipment... So, take preventive measures. Protect our communication security, protect our country, raise awareness of safety and protection, and make everything impossible before it happens.

Xiao Bian expects all major products to mark the day that "China created"!