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[LUG] BSD / Back doors / etc (was CentOS joining the RedHat mothership)

 

Wow.

I have just been reading about Theo and the BSD history from this point of view:
http://www.trollaxor.com/2012/12/a-brief-history-of-berkeley-software.html

Very interesting - and an aspect of history which I was not aware of!


It's interesting - just from the link above - that OpenBSD was found to have US gov 
funded backdoors (http://www.trollaxor.com/2011/10/why-i-uninstalled-openbsd.html) 
and that the same author / leader has created OpenSSH (http://www.theos.com/deraadt/)

So... that leads me to conclude (this is my own conclusion, not based on any fact - 
until advised otherwise) that OpenSSH is exactly that - wide open and has a Prism 
funded backdoor too.

Again - this is just my brief findings from an hour's searching / reading, so I'd be 
quite happy for someone to advise that I've got this wrong.


-----Original Message-----
From: list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
Simon Waters
Sent: 08 January 2014 19:12
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Subject: Re: [LUG] CentOS joining the RedHat mothership

The scope of this seems a bit vague.

In other news Shuttleworth elected DPL for life, and The BSD forks all realise Theo 
was right, and unify behind him. Microsoft announce pre-mature end of life for IE.
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