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Time for Open-Source to Grow Up
Jon Lasser, 2002-08-07

The OpenSSH backdoor demonstrates that the community must get pragmatic about package verification, and fast.

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Is it really so inmature? 2002-08-08
Javier Fernandez-Sanguino
Aren't you over-exagerating? The fact that the trojan was discovered almost imediately due to the MD5 checksum checks and did not spread at all (to other operating systems that do use OpenSSH source like any major Linux distributions). Impact of this issue is not even close to the one the TCP-wrappe...

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