[ExI] Three different surveillance firmware implants were made in in Chinese routers sold worldwide

[Adrian Tymes]

On Sun, Aug 30, 2026 at 10:05 AM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> On 29/08/2026 21:11, John K Clark wrote:
> > "These aren't conventional vulnerabilities where someone accidentally forgot to bounds-check a buffer. These are pieces of software deliberately included in the router firmware that provide remote access to the device. We would normally call this malware"
>
> I don't understand the 'normally' bit.
>
> This /is/ malware. We should be calling it malware. Why would anyone not call it malware?

Because of the technicality that it's working as intended by the maker
of the system, rather than being added by a third party.