Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 18:18:29 +0200 From: David Landgren <david@landgren.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: National Security Backdoor in telnetd - all versions. Message-ID: <3F4B8855.8030107@landgren.net> In-Reply-To: <20030826154934.GB11087@webserver> References: <009001c36b81$593080d0$87fafea9@eika9siic2z4bf> <20030826154934.GB11087@webserver>
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Joshua Oreman wrote: > 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. telnetd eh? how... quaint :) David
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