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Sporkman
February 5th, 2010, 10:42 PM
A scheme that gives U.S. law enforcement authorities with a warrant access to networking equipment could also be exploited by illegal snoopers...

For certain Cisco routers, the wiretap request is sent as a single packet of information, using a networking service called the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP). Cross identified a collection of problems with this setup.

First, he says, it's too easy to bypass the authentication built into the system...

http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/24477/?a=f