Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 00:52:14 -0400 From: "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> To: <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: national security backdoor in FreeBSD. Message-ID: <009c01c1fc95$74fd0470$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> References: <3CE295EC.6030603@cogeco.ca>
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> There is a backdoor in all versions of FreeBSD that are not compiled > from source code within portmapper and telnetd. Hmm. Let's check out this logic. The binaries that ship on the FreeBSD distros are compiled from source. When I upgrade my system, I compile from source. And the backdoor only exists in binaries that are not compiled from 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! -- Matt Emmerton [ A proud Canuck who takes offense to the huge Canadian flag hanging on this dude's bedroom wall. ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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