De Raadt Doubts Alleged Backdoors Made It Into OpenBSD 136
itwbennett writes "In follow-up to last week's controversy over allegations that the FBI installed a number of back doors into the encryption software used by the OpenBSD operating system, OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt said on a discussion list Tuesday, that he believes that a government contracting firm that contributed code to his project 'was probably contracted to write backdoors,' which would grant secret access to encrypted communications. But that he doesn't think that any of this software made it into the OpenBSD code base."
You can trust the government (Score:1, Funny)
Don't know why everyone's so concerned? If the FBI put backdoors into BSD or any other operating system, then it's for a good purpose - to protect us. "Sure there are some problem but they are doing the best they can, and we should not criticize them." - B5 chick
Re:Audit necessary (Score:5, Funny)
I hope that he's right, but without a thorough audit, who can say?
It is physically impossible that a backdoor makes it past De Raadt's ego into the kernel.
Interesting approach to security,,, (Score:5, Funny)
The Spine Defense (Score:5, Funny)
I think you must really have no spine if you except money from the FBI to backdoor crypto software.
"I needed the money to pay for my prosthetic spine!"