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Re: finding backdoors and security holes

From Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups comp.programming
Subject Re: finding backdoors and security holes
Message-ID <oftv5b9agvnreb7d20plpu11bkd266uqdn@4ax.com> (permalink)
References <6fd70338-1997-404e-a371-51577f91dbd3@googlegroups.com>
Organization Forte - www.forteinc.com
Date 2015-12-03 01:58 -0600

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On Wed, 2 Dec 2015 17:59:33 -0800 (PST), G G <gdotone@gmail.com>
wrote:

>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?


Half the time you can find security holes just by running the source
through Lint.

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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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