On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 11:51:24PM -0800, Michael J Wise wrote: > On Dec 14, 2010, at 9:56 PM, Ken Chase wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 09:39:02PM -0800, Chaim Rieger said: > >> Does anyone remember the last time a law enforcement agency had > >> someone sign a 10 year NDA on a backdoor? > >> > >> "Oh, times up, I can post it on Facebook now. Cool." > > > > 22:42 <@smartboy> curious what the guy's motives really are. pretty sure > > the > > NDA expiration on putting a backdoor into software for the > > FBI would be "when you're dead" > > 22:42 <@smartboy> or "when you'd like to be dead" > > Someone is confusing FBI with NSA, methinks. And yes, if this is > the kind of thing not talked about, "NDA"s expire when you do. But > seriously ... this would seem to be the kind of code that Smart People > should be doing security audits on Just Because. > > So rustle up a couple of PostDocs, and give them an idea for a Thesis, > and yer set.
More to the point, I think it wouldn't be an NDA, but a security classification on the knowledge of the backdoors, and probably one not subject to automatic downgrading. -- Mike Andrews, W5EGO mi...@mikea.ath.cx Tired old sysadmin
