Basically, he is saying the DOJ planted a back door so that it could spy on its own internal network.
What’s the real story here?
I remember this causing a huge stink at the time, with various petty reasons as the alleged cause (like Theo's less-than-friendly communication style).
> I actually am fairly uncomfortable about it, even if our firm stipulation was that they cannot tell us what to do. We are simply doing what we do anyways — securing software — and they have no say in the matter. I try to convince myself that our grant means a half of a cruise missile doesn't get built.
I don't have a date at hand but it was around the time of the war in Iraq.
A while after the quote was made (IIRC in a newspaper) the DARPA funding was cut.
a, there is nothing there to be found
b, being opensource is not enough to find security related bugs and backdoors
c, ?
>My NDA with the FBI has recently expired, and I wanted to make you aware of the fact that the FBI implemented a number of backdoors and side channel key leaking mechanisms into the OCF, for the express purpose of monitoring the site to site VPN encryption system implemented by EOUSA, the parent organization to the FBI. Jason Wright and several other developers were responsible for those backdoors, and you would be well advised to review any and all code commits by Wright as well as the other developers he worked with originating from NETSEC.
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