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Former contractor says FBI put back door in OpenBSD

Digg / Tech Industry News  Wed, 12/15/2010 - 03:50

A former government contractor says that the Federal Bureau of Investigation installed a number of back doors into the encryption software used by the OpenBSD operating system.


 

Moving Up The Rings

Linux Journal - The Original Magazine of the Linux Community  Wed, 09/23/2009 - 16:35

Many things have rings: mobile phones have incredibly annoying ones, jewelers have incredibly expensive ones, and Hell — at least according to Dante — has incredibly detailed ones.

For the past three years, thanks to a government contractor called Coverity, Open Source has rung as well.

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