> I believe in the early 90's there was a serious problem discovered in intel > chips that allowed certain standard code to be run > to overflow programs arbitrarily and gain access to operating systems in > an administrative capacity. > > Also I remember the redhat (back in the day) repository being hacked and > backdoored versions of programs being put into it. > I believe this also happened to an early version of debian or fedora at > some point also.
And how does this relate to Sun purposely putting a backdoor into their telnet service, as that was the suggestion, not a rogue attacker invading a CVS/FTP server and patching the source. > But I think you miss the point. No, I think you're changing it to suit your purposes. > Scarey stuff. The job is to be paranoid. Not to be dismissive of those who > ARE. I'm being dismissive of those of you who would prefer to believe that this is something that was put into the source on purpose by Sun as opposed to a developers mistake, Occam's razor and all that. There is a difference of paranoia and utter absurdity, and the (serious) suggestion that this was a bug placed on purpose by Sun crosses thats line. It was a silly bug accidently placed by (most likely) an engineer at Sun who will never live it up, not some stupid attempt at world domination via telnet.
