"amicus_curious" <[email protected]> writes:

> "David Kastrup" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> "amicus_curious" <[email protected]> writes:
>>
>>> If it fails early, it gets returned to the store or to the
>>> manufacturer for credit.
>>
>> If your whole computing centre gets compromised because a packet logger
>> could be inserted into the router, return to the store is your least
>> problem.  Being able to determine possible scope of a security breach is
>> certainly important.
>>
> You create a whole lot of hypothetical situations, but people buy
> these things at Sam's Club for $35 and they work just fine.  What
> compromise has there ever been that allowed someone to put a "packet
> logger" into the firmware of such a thing?  Who would bother?
>
Spammers who like to build botnets out of domestic PCs for example.

Mart

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