Re: FBI And OpenBSD...

2010-12-18 Thread secucatcher
on this article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/12/15/openbsd_backdoor_claim/ some talk: "E J Hilbert, a former FBI cyber-crime agent, said attempts were made to place backdoors in open source security codes but that these were unsuccessful. "I was one of the few FBI cyber agents when the codi

Re: FBI And OpenBSD...

2010-12-16 Thread Jona Joachim
On 2010-12-16, Michael Dexter wrote: > On 12/15/10 2:17 PM, Randy Wrench wrote: >> The above url carried an article which is disturbing to say the least... > > Wait a minute... I thought US citizens stayed away from the crypto code > to keep it untainted of US export controls. > > I smell a prank

Re: FBI And OpenBSD...

2010-12-15 Thread Michael Dexter
On 12/15/10 2:17 PM, Randy Wrench wrote: > The above url carried an article which is disturbing to say the least... Wait a minute... I thought US citizens stayed away from the crypto code to keep it untainted of US export controls. I smell a prank. (And prey that's the case.) Michael

Re: FBI And OpenBSD...

2010-12-15 Thread Olivier Mehani
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 11:17:02PM +0100, Randy Wrench wrote: > > The FBI allegedly paid OpenBSD developers to insert back-doors into > > the code-base... > The above url carried an article which is disturbing to say the > least... Anyone know more about this??? You should read security-announce@

Re: FBI And OpenBSD...

2010-12-15 Thread Bryan Irvine
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 3:12 PM, BSD wrote: > On 12/15/10 16:17, Randy Wrench wrote: >> >> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODkxMw >> >> >> >> Government organizations, whether they be from the United States, the >> European >> Union, or anywhere else for that matter, contributin

Re: FBI And OpenBSD...

2010-12-15 Thread BSD
On 12/15/10 16:17, Randy Wrench wrote: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODkxMw Government organizations, whether they be from the United States, the European Union, or anywhere else for that matter, contributing to open-source projects is not new. Heck, Security Enhanced Linu

Re: FBI And OpenBSD...

2010-12-15 Thread Super Biscuit
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.tech/22557 The shit shall hit the fan. --- On Wed, 12/15/10, Randy Wrench wrote: From: Randy Wrench Subject: FBI And OpenBSD... To: misc@openbsd.org Date: Wednesday, December 15, 2010, 10:17 PM http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item

Re: FBI And OpenBSD...

2010-12-15 Thread Bryan Irvine
In addition Gregory Perry allegedly responded and added PF to list the of targets. http://blogs.csoonline.com/1296/an_fbi_backdoor_in_openbsd -Bryan On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Randy Wrench wrote: > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODkxMw > > > > Government organizations

Re: FBI And OpenBSD...

2010-12-15 Thread Ted Unangst
Nope, first I've heard of it! On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Randy Wrench wrote: > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODkxMw > > > > Government organizations, whether they be from the United States, the European > Union, or anywhere else for that matter, contributing to open-sou

FBI And OpenBSD...

2010-12-15 Thread Randy Wrench
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODkxMw Government organizations, whether they be from the United States, the European Union, or anywhere else for that matter, contributing to open-source projects is not new. Heck, Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux) in the mainline kernel can