From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG  Tue Aug 26 08:49:13 2003
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A841B16A4BF
	for <questions@freebsd.org>; Tue, 26 Aug 2003 08:49:13 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from webserver.get-linux.org
	(adsl-64-161-78-226.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.161.78.226])
	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0C26843FDD
	for <questions@freebsd.org>; Tue, 26 Aug 2003 08:49:13 -0700 (PDT)
	(envelope-from oremanj@webserver.get-linux.org)
Received: (qmail 11133 invoked by uid 1000); 26 Aug 2003 15:49:34 -0000
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 08:49:34 -0700
From: Joshua Oreman <oremanj@get-linux.org>
To: questions@freebsd.org
Message-ID: <20030826154934.GB11087@webserver>
References: <009001c36b81$593080d0$87fafea9@eika9siic2z4bf>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <009001c36b81$593080d0$87fafea9@eika9siic2z4bf>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i
Subject: Re: National Security Backdoor in telnetd - all versions.
X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1
Precedence: list
List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>,
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>,
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 15:49:13 -0000

On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 11:22:12PM -0400 or thereabouts, Kevin shampoo Nadeau wrote:
> 
> Hello [ ... ]
> 
> telnetd is infected with a national security backdoor in all
> non-source compiled versions of FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD.  If you
> download the source code for telnetd and compile it to compare the
> file size of the "stock" or "out of the box" version of telnetd
> versus the source-compiled version - you will clearly see a
> difference - which is the backdoor.  This information should be
> forwarded to CERN and the BSD and Linux development teams.
> [ ... ]

Please don't feed the troll. The size difference is in "stripped"
vs "non-stripped", btw.

-- Josh

> [ ... ]
> 
> Kevin "shampoo" Nadeau
> _______________________________________________
> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list
> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions
> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"