Re: National security backdoor.

From: Alan Coopersmith (alanc_at_alum.calberkeley.org)
Date: 04/04/04

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    "Shampoo" <shamy@ptbo.igs.net> writes in comp.security.unix:
    |telnetd is infected with a national security backdoor in all non-source
    |compiled versions of FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD. If you download the
    |source code for telnetd and compile it to compare the file size of the
    |"stock" or "out of the box" version of telnetd versus the source-compiled
    |version - you will clearly see a difference - which is the backdoor.

    Well that's stupid of them - you'ld think someone in the vast
    consipiracy would have read Ken Thompson's Turing Award lecture and
    found better ways to hide their backdoors. 

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