Not affecting exactly FreeBSD but OpenBSD
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
Re: Not affecting exactly FreeBSD but OpenBSD
At 10:22 p.m. 16/12/2010, Michael R. Rusch wrote: On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 9:58 PM, Jorge Biquez mailto:jbiq...@intranet.com.mxjbiq...@intranet.com.mx wrote: 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 mailto:dbar...@redmondmag.comdbar...@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=6650088:222349http://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 mailto:dbar...@redmondmag.comdbar...@redmondmag.com. We only publish first names so you needn't fear retribution. To comment, go here: http://www.1105newsletters.com/t.do?id=6650089:222349http://www.1105newsletters.com/t.do?id=6650089:222349 ___ mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.orgfreebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questionshttp://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to mailto:freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.orgfreebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Jorge: I appreciated your willingness to post information about the subject at hand, however I don't think the mailing list is the correct place for 'Redmond Magazine' propaganda. I would also like to point out as of yet, the existence of a backdoor has yet to be confirmed. Below are two link you may enjoying reading to update your knowledge of the matter at hand: http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-techm=129237675106730w=2http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-techm=129237675106730w=2 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.bugtraq/45620 Michael -- Thanks, Michael Rusch New York Times mailto:rus...@gmail.comrus...@gmail.com twitter - @weeddude Hello. I am sorry. I thought could be of interest... I will follow the links. Thanks!. I'm sorry th eintention was not make propaganda to Redmon Jorge Biquez ___ 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
Re: Not affecting exactly FreeBSD but OpenBSD
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 9:58 PM, Jorge Biquez jbiq...@intranet.com.mxwrote: 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 Jorge: I appreciated your willingness to post information about the subject at hand, however I don't think the mailing list is the correct place for 'Redmond Magazine' propaganda. I would also like to point out as of yet, the existence of a backdoor has yet to be confirmed. Below are two link you may enjoying reading to update your knowledge of the matter at hand: http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-techm=129237675106730w=2 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.bugtraq/45620 Michael -- Thanks, Michael Rusch New York Times rus...@gmail.com twitter - @weeddude ___ 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
