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Message-ID: <AANLkTim0x41yRIwNILxnKHgibitzzv5kUxCHkLbE0xWc@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2010 13:53:44 -0700
From: coderman <coderman@...il.com>
To: lists@...esecurity.com
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Hiding Backdoors in plain sight

On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Mailing lists at Core Security
Technologies <lists@...esecurity.com> wrote:
> The CoreTex Team from Core Security is happy to announce the *1st Open
> Backdoor Hiding & Finding Contest* to be held at DEFCON 0x12 this year!
>
> Hiding a backdoor in open source code that will be subjected to the
> scrutiny of security auditors by the hundredths may not be an easy task.
> Positively and unequivocally identifying a cleverly hidden backdoor may
> be extremely difficult as well.

didn't ac1db1tch3z win this already?

oh right, the code will actually be audited.  my mistake...


(how much security does one hundredth of an auditor audit?)

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