"The prospect of a federal government agency paying open source developers to inject surveillance-friendly holes in operating systems is also deeply troubling. It's possible that similar backdoors could potentially exist on other software platforms. It's still too early to know if the claims are true, but the OpenBSD community is determined to find out if they are."
"I was one of the few FBI cyber agents when the coding supposedly happened. Experiment yes. Success N0." http://myloc.me/fiubs E.J. Hilbert twitter ejhilbert" I find it curious this would even make notice for two reasons. First, it hasn't hit a single major news media outlet. If in fact this were true or the allegations bore some truth this would be major news. Secondly, if we recall the scheme for building kernel pieces such as ipsec, we know that each mod went through a more or less hierarchy of individuals and subject to beta and alpha test before inclusion in the kernel or system wide update. This means each code piece is subject to anywhere from dozens to potentially thousands of developers worldwide before inclusion in publicly available code. Being such a touchy area I am sure that once a high level developer were to see it, the ruse would be found out quickly. What self-respecting kernel developer wants lines of code he can't explain in the final package? Hilbert's url is phoney as are some of the allegations in the original article. The more likely occurrence is the FBI paid some Dutchman and got ripped off in the end and this is their "damage control". (No offense to the Dutch --keep ripping Uncle Sam off please!) --Kaplan On 12/18/2010 5:07 PM, Anthony L. Testi wrote: > Interesting. Waiting to hear/read more on this as time goes on. >
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