"Richard M. Stallman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've often wondered, for an experiment, what results you woul dget if > you created a handy little utility, but embedded within it som ecode > which gathered information about the user and mailed it to some remote > site. > > I recall that a non-free program was liberated a few years ago and > the users soon found a back-door in it. And that wasn't a "little > utility". So apparently people do look, often enough, at the code.
I believe that you are referring to the Interbase database server (now sometimes known as Firebird). Here's the CERT advisory: http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-01.html > I wish I could recall the name of that program. Does anyone know? Hope that was helpful, Jason Earl _______________________________________________ Gnu-emacs-sources mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-emacs-sources
