From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 15 21:52:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from tomts10-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts10.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46EF637B405 for ; Wed, 15 May 2002 21:52:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from xena.gsicomp.on.ca ([65.95.179.11]) by tomts10-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.05 201-253-122-122-105-20011231) with ESMTP id <20020516045219.HDVJ6837.tomts10-srv.bellnexxia.net@xena.gsicomp.on.ca> for ; Thu, 16 May 2002 00:52:19 -0400 Received: from hermes (hermes.gsicomp.on.ca [192.168.0.18]) by xena.gsicomp.on.ca (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id g4G3cTb92312 for ; Wed, 15 May 2002 23:38:29 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Message-ID: <009c01c1fc95$74fd0470$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> From: "Matthew Emmerton" To: References: <3CE295EC.6030603@cogeco.ca> Subject: Re: national security backdoor in FreeBSD. Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 00:52:14 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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