On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, Gadi Evron wrote: > I have to agree with a previous poster and suspect (only suspect) it > could somehow be a backdoor rather than a bug.
You're attributing malice to what could be equally well (or better!) explained by incompetence or gross negligence. The latter two haunt large companies far more often, compared to sinister conspiracies. Yeah, a backdoor is a remote possibility. But it's also an arbitrary and needlessly complex one. Maybe it's a nefarious plot by our UFO-appointed shadow government, but chances are, it's not (they have better things to do today). Keep that in mind: when risking so much, of all the places to put a covert backdoor to use for years to come, pulling out a known flaw that will be spotted by many existing vulnerability scanners, and putting it in a service that is often disabled as obsolete and generally unreachable from the outside world, doesn't really make that much sense. Unless, of course, it's a sabotage attempt orchestrated by a joint team of IBM and SCO developers... now, that begins to make sense.. /mz _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
