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From: toddtowles at brookshires.com (Todd Towles)
Subject: Moox firefox/thunderbird builds. Anyone looked at these yet?
Subseven had a backdoor in it for years....
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> From: full-disclosure-admin@...ts.netsys.com
> [mailto:full-disclosure-admin@...ts.netsys.com] On Behalf Of
> Michal Zalewski
> Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 9:15 AM
> To: TK-421
> Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.netsys.com
> Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] Moox firefox/thunderbird
> builds. Anyone looked at these yet?
>
> On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, TK-421 wrote:
>
> > Yes, but because it's open source, you know that thousands
> of eyes are
> > looking at it daily. Especially in larger projects like
> > Mozilla/Firefox.
>
> Riight, 220 MB of sources. On a daily basis, just how many
> people with source code audit experience are desperate enough
> to download this and look at more than a couple of files?
>
> This does not work as advertised, quite simply; a well placed
> backdoor is indistinguishable from an unintentional security
> flaw, and unintentional security flaws can thrive in open
> source code for years or decades before being spotted.
>
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