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As far as I am aware, no actual backdoors have been discovered. This has a high probability of being a hoax.
by Zak 16y ago
As far as I am aware, no actual backdoors have been discovered. This has a high probability of being a hoax.
- Nrsolis 16y agoOf course it does. But I do think it's worthwhile to take measure of how important a particular piece of software is to our collective security and privacy. It's not necessarily a bad thing for interested parties to not completely trust their systems. Risk mitigation is all about quantifying probable events relative to their damage. I think a lot of people will take a look at the IPSEC code and that can't be a bad thing.
- mwg66 16y agoIt just seems odd to me that a seemingly well respected engineer would fabricate allegations using his corporate e-mail (VMWare). We should remember it was not he who posted them publicly. I'm not saying it's true but only that I don't see any more evidence that it isn't true than that it is - yet.
- bmastenbrook 16y agoPerry doesn't work for VMware. He has his own business that offers training on VMware products.
- mwg66 16y agoRight, sorry, I missed that. It still seems odd.
- eps 16y agoBackdoors need not be literal. A well-misplaced if will go a long way in leaking a key information. Hardly a "backdoor" in a more common sense of the word, but an exploitable weakness nonetheless.
- sabat 16y agoI'm fairly certain that kenjackson was being ironic.