RE: Re[2]: Solaris telnet vulnberability - how many on your network?

[Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org>]

On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Roger A. Grimes wrote:
> Spectulation over whether Microsoft, Sun, or any other vendor
> intentionally put in backdoors just makes our industry seem
> unprofessional. The likelihood that either vendor did is near zero.

Although we ruled this out with Sun's full disclosure (almost completely,
never say 100% in security), no one was accusing Sun.

This is a very important issue: a backdoor does not need to be put there
by the builder.

Example: Linux kernel and two lines of code.

        Gadi.