Date: 16 May 2002 14:41:39 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Matthew Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: national security backdoor in FreeBSD. Message-ID: <1021525918.3132.0.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <3CE33C1F.A547AE4D@mindspring.com> References: <3CE295EC.6030603@cogeco.ca> <009c01c1fc95$74fd0470$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> <3CE33C1F.A547AE4D@mindspring.com>
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On Thu, 2002-05-16 at 14:27, Terry Lambert wrote: > > source. So where do these binaries-with-no-source come from? Oh, I know! > > Carnivore detects FreeBSD ISO downloads, and tells the Magic Lantern > > software on my ISP's servers to change the binaries inside the ISO images > > that I FTP. Makes perfect sense! > > Bell Systems Technical Journal, July-August 1978, "On the Security > of UNIX.", D. M. Ritchie. > > They hacked the compiler to hack the passwd program when it was > being compiled, and also to hack the compiler to include hacks > to the compiler and the passwd program when the compiler itself > was being compiled. Chicken and egg. If that was done then compiled code would have the same hole. This is -chat material and thusly I have redirected it :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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