Backdoors imply they were there on purpose. In fact, OpenSSL is just a big mess.
"There is no shame in being self-taught, only in not trying to learn in the first place." -- Atrus, Myst: The Book of D'ni.
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Isn't the excuse that it's all a big mess the easiest way to provide a cover story for putting in backdoors? I mean look at Microsoft Windows. There was a news release about a year ago which said that just about any Microsoft system gets infected within 30 minutes of being online. Is Microsoft code that big of a mess?
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Of course it is that big of a mess. If it were competently written backdoors it wouldn’t be vulnerable to script kiddie probe hijinx. Wikipedia says Win has only 10s of millions of lines of code but IIRC the figure could be considered over 2 billion because Explorer and the Office suite is tied so deeply into parts of the OS. (Updated accidentally, no actual change.)
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As seductive as conspiracy theories can be, I generally hold to Hanlon's razor.
TJD
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