[CS-FSLUG] BSD: OpenBSD Not So Open?

[Ed Hurst]

Some of you may have noticed the news sometime back when it was alleged  
someone working on the OpenBSD code had placed a backdoor secretly at the  
behest of the US government. I'm sure many of us are aware the Big Man at  
OpenBSD, Theo de Raadt, is not famous for his sweetness. But I'm hardly  
the only person who assumed Theo would not let this issue slip through the  
cracks, but would comb through the code this alleged mole contributed. And  
because it's OPEN-BSD, we assumed it would be reported. So far as I can  
tell, it hasn't been reported anywhere. Lots of discussion, but no actual  
analysis released showing it's all good or fixed. I'm not the only one who  
noticed:

    http://www.trollaxor.com/2011/10/why-i-uninstalled-openbsd.html

I note in the comments to that article, no one actually refuted his  
primary contention.

Open Source politics continues to entertain, no?

-- 
Ed Hurst
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