[133646] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Alleged backdoor in OpenBSD's IPSEC implementation.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael J Wise)
Wed Dec 15 02:51:33 2010
From: Michael J Wise <mjwise@kapu.net>
In-Reply-To: <20101215055609.GH12881@sizone.org>
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 23:51:24 -0800
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Dec 14, 2010, at 9:56 PM, Ken Chase wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 09:39:02PM -0800, Chaim Rieger said:
>> Does anyone remember the last time a law enforcement agency had
>> someone sign a 10 year NDA on a backdoor?
>>=20
>> "Oh, times up, I can post it on Facebook now. Cool."
>=20
> 22:42 <@smartboy> curious what the guy's motives really are. pretty =
sure the=20
> NDA expiration on putting a backdoor into software =
for the=20
> FBI would be "when you're dead"
> 22:42 <@smartboy> or "when you'd like to be dead"
Someone is confusing FBI with NSA, methinks.
And yes, if this is the kind of thing not talked about, "NDA"s expire =
when you do.
But seriously ... this would seem to be the kind of code that Smart =
People should be doing security audits on Just Because.
So rustle up a couple of PostDocs, and give them an idea for a Thesis, =
and yer set.
Aloha,
Michael.
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