On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 11:11, Vipul Mathur wrote:
> A post on debian-security-announce finally talks about the post-mortem 
> of the recent server compromises.
> 
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/debian-security-announce-2003/msg00212.html


[snip]

horrid stuff this! but i don't know if anyone's been noticing that for
quite some time several projects have been pulled off savannah (such as
gnuparted) since they are quietly doing an internal audit for planted
vulnerabilities etc.

i feel there is more happening here than the press or the public knows
for the moment.

makes me wonder: if stuff like this happens, even on a public community
driven opensource project, where detection, forensics, and transparancy
can ensnare such problems, what the heck must be happening in closed
source projects.

what about stuff that must be going on in banking, finance, closed
operating systems, firmware, verticals, and perhaps mission-critical
stuff?

i also hope whoever tried these exploits gets caught. will make for an
interesting case study and for insights.

:-)
LL


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