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RE: Y2K trojans, and outsourcing...
From: Bill Stout <Bill.Stout () AristaSoft com>
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 10:54:52 -0700
Interesting that the big Y2K topic last year from the CIA was about foreign programmers brought in to do Y2K repair, where the programmers were trojan spies, trojaning systems. http://cgi.pathfinder.com/time/digital/daily/0,2822,13799,00.html One day a CIA issue, next an NBC issue. Bill Stout -----Original Message----- From: R. DuFresne [mailto:dufresne () sysinfo com] Sent: Friday, July 16, 1999 4:01 PM To: firewall-wizards () nfr net Subject: Y2K trojans, and outsourcing... The national news for NBC ran an interesting topic tonight; Estimating that some company/industry faces a loss potential of a billion or more at least, due to a backdooring trojan inserted by one or more consultants brought in to fix the Y2K problem... Thanks, Ron DuFresne -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ admin & senior consultant: darkstar.sysinfo.com http://darkstar.sysinfo.com "Cutting the space budget really restores my faith in humanity. It eliminates dreams, goals, and ideals and lets us get straight to the business of hate, debauchery, and self-annihilation." -- Johnny Hart testing, only testing, and damn good at it too!
Current thread:
- Y2K trojans, and outsourcing... R. DuFresne (Jul 16)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: Y2K trojans, and outsourcing... Shappard, Richard, A (Rich) (Jul 18)
- Re: Y2K trojans, and outsourcing... Patrick Oonk (Jul 19)
- RE: Y2K trojans, and outsourcing... Cohen Liota (Jul 20)
- Re: Y2K trojans, and outsourcing... Henry (Jul 19)
- Re: Y2K trojans, and outsourcing... R. DuFresne (Jul 19)
- RE: Y2K trojans, and outsourcing... sean . kelly (Jul 19)
- Re: Y2K trojans, and outsourcing... Joseph S D Yao (Jul 20)
- RE: Y2K trojans, and outsourcing... Bill Stout (Jul 19)
- RE: Y2K trojans, and outsourcing... Henry Sieff (Jul 19)
- RE: Y2K trojans, and outsourcing... Alan Lustiger (Jul 19)
- RE: Y2K trojans, and outsourcing... Marcus J. Ranum (Jul 19)
- Re: Y2K trojans, and outsourcing... Steven M. Bellovin (Jul 20)
- RE: Y2K trojans, and outsourcing... Bill_Royds (Jul 20)
- Re: Y2K trojans, and outsourcing... Ryan Russell (Jul 21)