Hi gang,
Apparently "Backdoor Man" is still popular, but not as a blues.
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9025436
So, the question is, can you trust *any* commercial vendor where
you can't verify the code?
We have no clue if this was done for Intuit itself or if it was
done at the request of some _agency_; however, even if it was
only done for Intuit it does leave a rather sour taste because
this is yet another proof of security by obscurity does not work
and will eventually be exploited.
BTW, does anyone have a conversion metric for, say John the
Ripper on a P4 3GHz with 1GB of memory (or some other commodity
level computer) to the tera (soon to be peta it looks like) flop
ratings on super computers?
Thanks,
Allen
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