If you have the ability to update firmware, you have the ability to add remote access whenever you like. You're already trusting the vendor either way.
That said, this current situation of an always-on SSH connection/backdoor is just begging to be exploited by an irate employee, curious intern, or worms. It's impossible to know what sort of safeguards the vendor has in place, if any.
Putting a lock on a nuke is good, but not building the nuke at all is better.
That said, this current situation of an always-on SSH connection/backdoor is just begging to be exploited by an irate employee, curious intern, or worms. It's impossible to know what sort of safeguards the vendor has in place, if any.
Putting a lock on a nuke is good, but not building the nuke at all is better.