On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Roger A. Grimes wrote:
> Spectulation over whether Microsoft, Sun, or any other vendor
> intentionally put in backdoors just makes our industry seem
> unprofessional. The likelihood that either vendor did is near zero.
Although we ruled this out with Sun's full disclosure (almost completely,
never say 100% in security), no one was accusing Sun.
This is a very important issue: a backdoor does not need to be put there
by the builder.
> Spectulation over whether Microsoft, Sun, or any other vendor
> intentionally put in backdoors just makes our industry seem
> unprofessional. The likelihood that either vendor did is near zero.
Although we ruled this out with Sun's full disclosure (almost completely,
never say 100% in security), no one was accusing Sun.
This is a very important issue: a backdoor does not need to be put there
by the builder.
Example: Linux kernel and two lines of code.
Gadi.
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