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

[Fred A. Miller]

On 10/16/2011 07:29 PM, Ed Hurst wrote:
> 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?

Yes. I imagine that no OS is going to be "safe" much longer, not as long
as evil men are in control of gov't.

Fred

-- 
"Gun control is like trying to reduce drunk driving by making it 
tougher for sober people to own cars." - Unknown

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