Path: csiph.com!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Osmium" Newsgroups: comp.programming Subject: Re: finding backdoors and security holes Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2015 09:48:34 -0600 Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: <6fd70338-1997-404e-a371-51577f91dbd3@googlegroups.com> <59fddfb5-6e30-4be1-ad62-4eacad1b7c2b@googlegroups.com> <12da19a4-f81d-44c4-a253-4c1bf0720866@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net xiW202iadTw3kRHekqX3HAg9FhHORIFh7ktgXcRkLOCySPgy/F Cancel-Lock: sha1:fs50UjwV6REq/uftFYfyEzenhAs= X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 Xref: csiph.com comp.programming:6011 "G G" wrote: > On Thursday, December 3, 2015 at 9:13:05 AM UTC-5, Osmium wrote: > >> To the OP: >> Perhaps if you would limit your question to backdoors you might start >> getting useful answers. You gave a sneak path by mentioning security >> issues - it's kind of like electricity, it takes the easiest path. >> >> I only have guesses, my guess is that an awful lot of stars have to align >> to >> find a backdoor. > > What do you mean? You gave a sneak path by mentioning security >> issues - it's kind of like electricity, it takes the easiest path." > > If a backdoor in a device or software, isn't that a security issue too. > > I would love to hear from anyone with insight or just reasonable guess > work (thinking). I mean you asked two questions. One about security issues and one about backdoors. If you ask two questions people will naturally answer the easier one. A huge number of security issues are well known and I am quite sure I could find a whole book on the subject by spending a few minutes with Google. Back doors are a *specific* security issue and the answers are going to become much more sparse. For example, I have no reason in the world to believe that my OS (Windows XP) does not contain one or more backdoors. It is such a behemoth that it takes several CDs to contain a copy of it.