On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 5:50 PM, aki <aki275@gmail.com> wrote:
Just had to share this one.....
A former government contractor says that the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation installed a number of back doors into the encryption software used by the OpenBSD operating system. The allegations were made public Tuesday by Theo de Raadt, the lead developer in the OpenBSD project. DeRaadt posted an e-mail sent by the former contractor, Gregory Perry, so that the matter could be publicly scrutinized. "The mail came in privately from a person I have not talked to for nearly 10 years," he wrote in his a posting to an OpenBSD discussion list. "I refuse to become part of such a conspiracy, and will not be talking to Gregory Perry about this. Therefore I am making it public."
No one has come forward to corroborate Perry's story, but the allegations are remarkable. If they're true -- and at present they're being greeted with skepticism by the security community -- they mean that the FBI may have developed secret ways to snoop on encrypted traffic and then hidden them in source code submissions accepted by OpenBSD.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/121510-former-contractor-says-fbi-put....
Just unbelievable! (if these claims are confirmed to be true) This is what NDAs (and money) get you. You can only imagine what they've got companies like Microsoft to do with their software.