finding backdoors and security holes

Newsgroups	comp.programming
Date	2015-12-02 17:59 -0800
Message-ID	<6fd70338-1997-404e-a371-51577f91dbd3@googlegroups.com> (permalink)
Subject	finding backdoors and security holes
From	G G <gdotone@gmail.com>

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How are these guys (generic) find these backdoors and security holes?

Some of the code they are looking at has to be 100s of thousands
line of code.

In the case of Arris's backdoor, what, how?

Any really good books on the subject matter?

Thanks,

g.

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finding backdoors and security holes G G <gdotone@gmail.com> - 2015-12-02 17:59 -0800
  Re: finding backdoors and security holes Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2015-12-03 01:58 -0600
  Re: finding backdoors and security holes Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-12-03 11:04 +0000
    Re: finding backdoors and security holes "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2015-12-09 09:22 -0600
      Re: finding backdoors and security holes Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-12-09 15:58 +0000
      Re: finding backdoors and security holes "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2015-12-13 22:59 -0500
  Re: finding backdoors and security holes Öö Tiib <ootiib@hot.ee> - 2015-12-03 05:42 -0800
    Re: finding backdoors and security holes "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2015-12-03 08:12 -0600
      Re: finding backdoors and security holes G G <gdotone@gmail.com> - 2015-12-03 06:55 -0800
        Re: finding backdoors and security holes "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2015-12-03 09:48 -0600
          Re: finding backdoors and security holes Öö Tiib <ootiib@hot.ee> - 2015-12-03 10:01 -0800
  Re: finding backdoors and security holes Victor Porton <porton@narod.ru> - 2015-12-03 20:49 +0200
    Re: finding backdoors and security holes G G <gdotone@gmail.com> - 2015-12-04 15:56 -0800

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