Carlos Serrão

as minhas notas e página pessoal…

Conspiration theory or …

December 15, 2010 by carlosserrao | 1 Comment

… the concrete proof that, somewhere in the process, “intelligence” agencies are able to infiltrate in the open-source development and influence it’s course.

This case of the “Allegations regarding OpenBSD IPSEC“, if confirmed, is extremely serious and deserves the attention and discussion of the open-source community, and the way committed code is verified and assured. 

  • António Lopes

    Actually, is simpler than that! There’s no “infiltration” or any other kind of covert operation. It’s plain and simple bribery. Someone payed these developers to build those backdoors.What upsets me is the fact that in these 10 years, nobody spotted the backdoors’ code! That will sure open a hole in open-source reputation…

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