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Buzzword Bonanza
Elias Levy, SecurityFocus 2000-05-01

Security companies can make headlines by using the right jargon, even when it's wrong.

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A couple of comments 2000-05-01
Anonymous
First, Mr Levy starts out with:

"A backdoor is normally understood in computer security circles to refer to a system vulnerability

deliberately put in place by system designers or operators such that it would allow them to bypass

normal security checks. The "wemilo" password discovered in the C...

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