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BSD Coder Denies Adding FBI Backdoor

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the not-gonna-quote-the-doors dept.

jfruhlinger writes "Theo de Raadt has made the shocking claim that OpenBSD includes a backdoor that the FBI paid coders to build. Brian Proffitt has tracked down one of the programmers named as being on the FBI payroll (actually, he tracked down two programmers with the same name). Both deny working with the FBI."

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  1. Please correct. by santax · · Score: 5, Informative

    It was not Theo that made that claim. It was Theo that released the email he got from the guy making that claim! Big big difference!

    1. Re:Please correct. by santax · · Score: 5, Informative

      You haven't read that mail if you are saying that. Just read the damn mail! http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=129236621626462&w=2

    2. Re:Please correct. by jfruhlinger · · Score: 5, Informative

      I'm the one who submitted it to Slashdot, and it's totally my fault, not a mistake in TFA. Apologies.

    3. Re:Please correct. by clone52431 · · Score: 2, Informative

      a private email

      It was his e-mail, because it was sent to him. He’s the one who gets to decide whether it’s private or not.

      There is someone else’s private e-mail, and then there is my e-mail. Whether or not I want my e-mail to be private is my decision. If you send me an e-mail, unless you specifically request otherwise, assume I can do whatever I want with it. Including post it online.

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      Distributed Denial of APK: It takes 15 seconds to reply to him anonymously, but wastes tons of his time if we all do it.
  2. Re:Oh come on by Scutter · · Score: 3, Informative

    You didn't get that this was a follow-up story, then, huh?

    --

    "Tell me doctor, with all of your defenses, are there any provisions for an attack by killer bees?"
  3. Wrong summary by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Oh please, de Raadt didn't claim shit. Here's the original mail.

    Theo seems skeptical himself, he just didn't want to hold back a potential security issue.

  4. Re:NDA by zn0k · · Score: 3, Informative

    No.

    But that's because they're bound by patient confidentiality, and not a boilerplate 10 year "don't talk about anything you learned at work" NDA.

    So the two cases don't really compare. At all.