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Re: finding backdoors and security holes

From Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk>
Newsgroups comp.programming
Subject Re: finding backdoors and security holes
Date 2015-12-03 11:04 +0000
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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On 03/12/15 01:59, G G wrote:
> How are these guys (generic) find these backdoors and security holes?

Do they have the source? If so, imagine trying to find a shoe shop on 
Oxford Street (not a particular shop - any shoe shop will do), looking 
for a hill in Wales, tracking down a cow in Gloucestershire, or 
identifying a crank in sci.crypt. These are tasks of comparable length 
and difficulty.

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Email: rjh at cpax dot org dot uk
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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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