Re: National security backdoor.
From: Colin B. (cbigam_at_somewhereelse.nucleus.com)
Date: 04/05/04
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Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2004 20:35:26 GMT
Alan Coopersmith <alanc@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
> "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.
Indeed. If you can compile a clean version, it's a pretty poor backdoor.
Colin
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