Attention OpenBSD user's, the F.B.I Have a backdoor In your OS

I saw this and thought any openbsd users might find this Info useful.
Report of FBI back door roils OpenBSD community


http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20025767-281.html

http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=129236621626462&w=2

Holy shit!

Here's an update, There's no fbi backdoor but other problems have come to light.
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/n...f-backdoor.ars

who cares? :huh:

I guess OpenBSD users. If you aren't a Linux user, Its trivial. If you do, All the many years of Linux stories of how secure it is would come into question.. But hey,as you said ,who cares?.

This is not about openBSD, this about all the FOSS people have been trusted for years. The thing about all FOSS software, almost %90 percent of the internet runs by them. All the webservers are either linux or BSD (or hacked).

I'll continue using FOSS forever, as I like that there's people out there willing to make and update similar software that cost's way too much on Windblows. Long live FOSS.

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Originally Posted by darkstate01

I'll continue using FOSS forever, as I like that there's people out there willing to make and update similar software that cost's way too much on Windblows. Long live FOSS.

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Yeah, it still totally worth it :)

Wow, I had not heard about this earlier but it seems that the backdoor was just some loose claims by a security company which couldn't be verified even by a thorough code review. I would rather trust the claims by reputable FOSS activists than some loose security VP and would must rather trust them for my software rather than some "used-to-be-quite-evil" redmond company. So yay for FOSS.