FBI And OpenBSD...

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From: Randy Wrench
Date: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 - 3:17 pm

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODkxMw



Government organizations, whether they be from the United States, the European 
Union, or anywhere else for that matter, contributing to open-source projects 
is not new. Heck, Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux) in the mainline kernel can 
largely be attributed to the United State's National Security Agency (NSA). 
More organizations contributing to open-source isn't bad -- government or not 
-- when it's mutually beneficial work with good intentions. However, there are 
new allegations being made today about OpenBSD's networking stack, in 
particular it's IPsec code. The FBI allegedly paid OpenBSD developers to 
insert back-doors into the code-base... 





The above url carried an article which is disturbing to say the least... 
Anyone know more about this???
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FBI And OpenBSD..., Randy Wrench, (Wed Dec 15, 3:17 pm)
Re: FBI And OpenBSD..., Ted Unangst, (Wed Dec 15, 3:57 pm)
Re: FBI And OpenBSD..., Bryan Irvine, (Wed Dec 15, 4:01 pm)
Re: FBI And OpenBSD..., Olivier Mehani, (Wed Dec 15, 4:03 pm)
Re: FBI And OpenBSD..., BSD, (Wed Dec 15, 4:12 pm)
Re: FBI And OpenBSD..., Bryan Irvine, (Wed Dec 15, 5:01 pm)
Re: FBI And OpenBSD..., Michael Dexter, (Thu Dec 16, 12:00 am)
Re: FBI And OpenBSD..., Jona Joachim, (Thu Dec 16, 6:48 am)
Re: FBI And OpenBSD..., secucatcher, (Sat Dec 18, 4:49 am)