On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, Michal Zalewski wrote:
On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, Gadi Evron wrote:
I have to agree with a previous poster and suspect (only suspect) it
could somehow be a backdoor rather than a bug.
You're attributing malice to what could be equally well (or better!)
explained by incompetence or gross negligence. The latter two haunt large
companies far more often, compared to sinister conspiracies.
Yeah, a backdoor is a remote possibility. But it's also an arbitrary and
needlessly complex one. Maybe it's a nefarious plot by our UFO-appointed
shadow government, but chances are, it's not (they have better things to
do today).
Keep that in mind: when risking so much, of all the places to put a covert
backdoor to use for years to come, pulling out a known flaw that will be
spotted by many existing vulnerability scanners, and putting it in a
service that is often disabled as obsolete and generally unreachable from
the outside world, doesn't really make that much sense.
Well, I just can't rule it out. It speaks for itself. Your voice of reason
is naturally appreciated.
I still believe it is a possibility, as what could be better?
In 1994, this wasn't very far-off, nor was this noticable. Probable other
explanations are abound, we will see if Sun sets us straight.
Unless, of course, it's a sabotage attempt orchestrated by a joint team of
IBM and SCO developers... now, that begins to make sense..
Trucks and tubes I tell ya!
/mz
Gadi.
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