Chinese bank requires foreign firm to install app with covert backdoor


Tech | 207522 hits | Jun 26 8:04 am | Posted by: DrCaleb
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A large, multinational technology company got a nasty surprise recently as it was expanding its operations to China. The software a local bank required the company to install so it could pay local taxes contained an advanced backdoor.

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  1. by avatar Robair
    Fri Jun 26, 2020 3:18 pm
    Fuck China.

  2. by avatar DrCaleb
    Fri Jun 26, 2020 3:58 pm
    "Robair" said
    Fuck China.


    Like in the English version of "Girl With the Dragon Tattoo"; with a great big dildo that needs a mallet to insert.

  3. by avatar BartSimpson Gold Member
    Fri Jun 26, 2020 9:24 pm
    "Robair" said
    Fuck China.


    Wuhan Flu.

  4. by Thanos
    Fri Jun 26, 2020 9:34 pm
    "DrCaleb" said
    Fuck China.


    Like in the English version of "Girl With the Dragon Tattoo"; with a great big dildo that needs a mallet to insert.

    China sez to all of us "we hope you like anal". :twisted:

  5. by avatar bootlegga
    Fri Jun 26, 2020 11:00 pm
    "Thanos" said
    Fuck China.


    Like in the English version of "Girl With the Dragon Tattoo"; with a great big dildo that needs a mallet to insert.

    China sez to all of us "we hope you like anal". :twisted:


  6. by Thanos
    Sat Jun 27, 2020 3:45 am
    "They love little guys like you in prison" - Doug McKenzie to his brother Bob, "Strange Brew" :lol:

  7. by Sunnyways
    Sat Jun 27, 2020 3:52 am
    I wouldn’t expect anything less of the PRC but aren’t backdoors commonplace in Silicon Valley too?

  8. by Thanos
    Sat Jun 27, 2020 4:19 am
    Lots of well-used backdoors everywhere. It's human nature to use them. "Check out that awesome backdoor - to hell with what anyone thinks, I'm going in!". Even among a quiet majority of the ladies. And in all sorts of unexpected places, like church. Or farm country. Or up in the oil sands. And especially in Quebec. Hell, it's practically written into the national constitution of countries like Holland that no backdoor will be left unexplored.

    We're still talking about sex, right?

  9. by avatar DrCaleb
    Sat Jun 27, 2020 1:30 pm
    "Sunnyways" said
    I wouldn’t expect anything less of the PRC but aren’t backdoors commonplace in Silicon Valley too?


    Not intentional, no. Most often they miss a race condition, or forget to check the length of inputs. Something that leaves a vulnerability that can be misused.

    But law enforcement is pushing to insert flaws that they can use in encryption, for 'law enforcement purposes'.

    https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/05/t ... encryption



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