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  • Backdoors in OpenBSD? Reply hazy, try again

    Posted January 17, 2011 - 11:48 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?

  • Software flaws don't negate "many eyes" in open source

    Posted December 17, 2010 - 11:57 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.

  • OpenBSD/FBI allegations denied by named participants

    Posted December 14, 2010 - 11:32 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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