** Troll ** Re: National security backdoor.

From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu (itetcu_at_apropo.ro)
Date: 04/06/04 

Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 23:08:05 +0300

On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 15:16:38 -0500
"Shampoo" <shamy@ptbo.igs.net> wrote:
 
[..]

> 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.

Exactly the same massage was posted on the lists @FreeBSD.org about two
years ago.

It was kindly explained to him about how compilers work, etc. 

-- 
IOnut
Unregistered ;) FreeBSD "user"

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