On 12/15/10 16:17, Randy Wrench wrote:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODkxMw
Government organizations, whether they be from the United States, the European
Union, or anywhere else for that matter, contributing to open-source projects
is not new. Heck, Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux) in the mainline kernel can
largely be attributed to the United State's National Security Agency (NSA).
More organizations contributing to open-source isn't bad -- government or not
-- when it's mutually beneficial work with good intentions. However, there are
new allegations being made today about OpenBSD's networking stack, in
particular it's IPsec code. The FBI allegedly paid OpenBSD developers to
insert back-doors into the code-base...
The above url carried an article which is disturbing to say the least...
Anyone know more about this???
How about /. and the rest of the world? Theo forwarded the original
email hours ago.
-luis
