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Re: finding backdoors and security holes

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"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.

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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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