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Re:Allegations of FBI crypto backdoors in OpenBSD IPSEC by pilif on Wednesday December 15, 2010 @02:35AM (#2007373)
This reminds me of a brilliant april fools joke the german Linux Magazin pulled off back in 2001 where they suggested that a backdoor was added to the Linux networking stack disguised in many harmless looking patches

http://www.linux-magazin.de/Heft-Abo/Ausgaben/2001/04/Big-Br...

if you can read german.

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Re:Allegations of FBI crypto backdoors in OpenBSD IPSEC by shadowpwner on Wednesday December 15, 2010 @02:53AM (#2007407)
Can't read German, but this sounds like the DirectTV(right company?) updates to stop hackers from getting free TV. Pretty ingenious if you ask me.

/offtopic

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