Seeing your little debate on what a Back Door actually is I decided to look elsewhere...

The Jargon File (http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/index.html) defines a backdoor as:

"[common] A hole in the security of a system deliberately left in place by designers or maintainers. The motivation for such holes is not always sinister; some operating systems, for example, come out of the box with privileged accounts intended for use by field service technicians or the vendor's maintenance programmers." http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/back-door.html

[ reply ]

Link to this comment: http://www.securityfocus.com/comments/articles/25/1631#1631