Re: National Security Backdoor in telnetd - all versions.

From: Au Naturel Productions (w_e_b_m_a_s_t_e_r_at_IDONTLIKESPAMa_n_p-i_n_c.net)
Date: 08/28/03 

Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 00:23:48 -0400

On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 01:42:50 +0000, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:

> Horse puckey. They're a federal agency, they are constrained by
> constitutional limitations. They *violate* them, and are difficult to
> prosecute under the auspices of "national security".

Do you really know what you are talking about? Have you ever done anyting
within the National Security field? From what I have see you write: I
highly doubt it.

> That would be *GREAT*. It would provide additional constitutional
> grounds to have the courts yank the teeth out of these business and
> freedom crippling regulations.

You must feel the military and government shouldn't have any secrets huh??

> Now try to provide a secure password, and make sure it doesn't get
> sniffed when you have to reconfigure your switch from offsite.

You allow remote root logins?
 
> Whoops. Can't be done without building an SSL/SSH tunnel, which costs
> another $5000 in rack space and setup time to make reliable.

Vendor is your problem, not government. Vendors claim government, because
they are lazy themselves.

> That's right, you can download it. You can't have it *already built in*,
<snip>
> real-time, as we can now crack the old 'crypt' by raw brute force"?
 
Vendors are your problem, or are you just lazy to do the work yourself? As
to you histroy, read The Puzzle Palace. You might get an idea of my
experience.

> Happens all the time, especially for private cell phones by both
<snip>
> tune for a bit.

Then blame the cell phone makers for not helping secure their phones.

> The encryption was apparently solid. The *patent violations* were done
<snip>
> your own genuinely private session keys in roughly 45 minutes.

NSA development? Where did you get that information? VChip had nothing to
do with what you are claiming?

> This is what "security by federal mandate, it's a secret and we can't
> tell you, p-b-b-b-b-b-t-h" gets you. Illegal behavior and stupid designs.

Do you know what sets how this nation sets its classifications? Probably
not.