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Backdoors in OpenBSD? Reply hazy, try again

Posted January 17, 2011 - 10:48 am

The fallout from last month's allegations that the Federal Bureau of Investigations attempted to deploy backdoors in the OpenBSD operating system are continuing to echo through developer circles, as more potential clues are unearthed. But if anything, these clues tend to muddy the answer to the key question: did the US government employ contractors to insert deliberate security holes into OpenBSD?
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OpenBSD chief believes contractor tried to write backdoors

Posted December 22, 2010 - 2:05 pm

The lead developer of the OpenBSD operating system says that he believes that a government contracting firm that contributed code to his project "was probably contracted to write backdoors," which would grant secret access to encrypted communications.
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Software flaws don't negate "many eyes" in open source

Posted December 17, 2010 - 10:57 am

As allegations about OpenBSD swirl around the open source community, pundits are wondering if the whole "many eyes, shallow bugs" idea isn't all it's cracked up to be. It's not the concept that's the problem, it's those bipedal carbon-based lifeforms who are mucking things up.
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OpenBSD back door claim now in doubt

Posted December 16, 2010 - 10:09 am

The claim that the FBI planted a backdoor in OpenBSD a decade ago has been flatly denied by developer protagonists named as having been involved in the conspiracy in an email sent to OpenBSD founder, Theo de Raadt.
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OpenBSD/FBI allegations denied by named participants

Posted December 14, 2010 - 10:32 pm

Amidst startling accusations revealed by OpenBSD founder and lead developer Theo de Raadt today that 10 years ago the US Federal Bureau of Investigations paid developers to insert security holes into OpenBSD code, some confusion about the accusations has already emerged, with two potential participants strongly denying any involvement. Updated.
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Kaspersky: Mac, Linux, BSD open for attack

Posted October 20, 2008 - 12:59 pm

Looming attacks will soon pop the security bubble enjoyed by Linux and Macintosh users, according to Russian security expert Eugene Kaspersky.
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Developer fixes 33-year-old Unix bug

Posted July 10, 2008 - 1:37 pm

An OpenBSD developer has discovered and fixed a bug in the software that has been traced back to an AT&T version of Unix from 1975.
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