Hello all. I found this interesting and wanted to share it here..... I guess it has to do with a recently thread here....
Jorge Biquez -------------------------- By Doug Barney Editor in Chief, Redmond magazine dbar...@redmondmag.com FBI: THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INSTALLATION If WikiLeaks taught us anything, it's that our government (heck, pretty much all governments) does a lot of things behind our backs. Some of this is necessary and justified, and some seems just stupid and sometimes evil. Now an ex-consultant for the FBI says a decade ago the bureau modified OpenBSD (you can do that since it is open source). It didn't improve security or performance. Nah, the feds installed a backdoor so it could spy on U.S. attorneys who used the OS. http://www.1105newsletters.com/t.do?id=6650088:222349 The charges, made by Greg Perry, were denounced by an OpenBSD developer as poppycock. This is a bit different from WikiLeaks as Perry claims his charges were meant to be private and to serve as notice to get the OpenBSD code fully audited. It will, I think, take an audit to get the bottom of this fiasco. Do you trust our key pieces of software or suspect manipulation? Send your opinions to dbar...@redmondmag.com. We only publish first names so you needn't fear retribution. To comment, go here: http://www.1105newsletters.com/t.do?id=6650089:222349 _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
