full-disclosure - Re: Popular Net anonymity service back-doored

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From: barney at databus.com (Barney Wolff)
Subject: Re: Popular Net anonymity service back-doored

On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 02:41:33PM -0700, Aron Nimzovitch wrote:
> 
> Only a fool would blindly depend on someone else's software to gain
> anonymity without examining the code.  If you need anonymity, then you
> should easily be willing to invest sweat equity, or have a contractual
> arrangement when the threat is only financial.  For more serious
> threats requiring anonymity, not reviewing the source when it is
> available seems beyond stupid.  I could unserstand your ire if you
> were one of our clients, but this was a free service wasn't it?

Examination of the code is all very well, but what assurance did you
ever have that the source code released was identical to what was
actually running on the server?  Or that their compiler or libraries
hadn't been trojaned?

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Barney Wolff         http://www.databus.com/bwresume.pdf
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