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<\/a><\/p>\nDeng Xiaoping, in 1979 – his second year as supreme leader of China – perceived a\u00a0fundamental truth that has yet to be fully grasped by most Western leaders: Software, if properly\u00a0weaponized, could be far more destructive than any nuclear arsenal.<\/p>\n
Under Deng\u2019s leadership, China began one of the most ambitious and sophisticated meta-\u00a0software development programs ever undertaken.<\/p>\n
And what is meta-software? It’s the one science that the entire Western World has entirely\u00a0overlooked. It is a high level set of principles for developing software that are imperative if a\u00a0nation is to survive in a cyberwar.<\/p>\n
For example, programmers must constantly be audited. Every line of code written by every\u00a0programmer is audited by two senior programmers, and these auditors are rotated each month\u00a0and the same two are never paired more than once. You will see very clearly, later in this article,\u00a0why such a principle is vital to a society\u2019s survival.<\/p>\n
Another principal is that back doors into software can never, under any circumstances, be\u00a0allowed. Under Deng Xiaoping, the penalty for back doors, and for violating any of the meta-\u00a0software principles, was death.<\/p>\n
I will give an example of what happens in the real world when back doors are put into software.\u00a0On December 17th of last year, Juniper Networks – a major provider of secure network systems,\u00a0who’s customers include nearly every US government agency, announced that it had discovered two \u201cunauthorized\u201d back doors in its systems<\/a>.<\/p>\n For those of my readers who do not understand how back doors are created – they can only be\u00a0created by the manufacturers of the software. There is, absolutely, no other way.<\/p>\n So, the company had to have a rogue employee in the software development department. This\u00a0much is clear.<\/p>\n It will also be clear, if you continue reading, who placed the rogue employee within Juniper\u00a0Networks and why.<\/p>\n First, a little background: Juniper Networks has operations in more than 100 countries. Around\u00a050% of its revenue is from the United States, 30% are from EMEA and 20% are from Asia. Over\u00a0half of Juniper\u2019s customers are in parts of the world in which the NSA has extreme interest.<\/p>\n Now, a legitimate TOP-SECRET document. Released by Anonymous and dated February 2011\u00a0reveals that the British spy agency GCHQ, with the knowledge and apparent cooperation of the\u00a0NSA, acquired the capability to covertly exploit security vulnerabilities<\/a> in 13 different models of\u00a0firewalls made by Juniper Networks.<\/p>\n I hope we all understand now what \u201cacquired the capability\u201d means. The NSA planted a\u00a0programmer within Jupiter Networks. The was no other way to \u201cacquire” this capability.<\/p>\n Nothing new in this. Black hat hackers have been planting themselves in target agencies for\u00a0years. It was just such a plant that brought down Ashley Madison last year. So it’s no surprise\u00a0that the NSA uses this technique as well.<\/p>\n Of interest here is that Juniper announced that two back back doors were discovered in its\u00a0system. One of the back doors was code verifiable written by the NSA prior to 2011.<\/p>\nThomson Reuters<\/span>A woman walks past a banner with the logo of Juniper Networks Inc. covering the facade of the New York Stock Exchange<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n