The Daily Dose

As the US and UK governments seek to get backdoor access to encrypted phones, computers and other devices pushes forward, we just got the best example of why to avoid them altogether. This week, Juniper discovered that someone had added malicious code within its firewall devices running ScreenOS that allowed anyone with a specific password to break into affected devices undetected. It’s hard to illustrate just how this much matters, because while Juniper is an enormous company that you probably use to get online every day, it’s also entirely boring. What matters is this: someone modified software on a public company’s network equipment,…

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