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

 

Yes, but the clue is in the domain name there, if they want to troll properly they 
need to use something more bland.


On 9 Jan 2014, at 06:54, Tremayne, Steve <steven.tremayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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
> To: list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 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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