[Info-vax] Have the NSA planted backdoors in VMS ?

[Simon Clubley]

On 2018-01-08, dgordonatvsi at gmail.com <dgordonatvsi at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sunday, January 7, 2018 at 9:34:26 PM UTC-5, Simon Clubley wrote:
>
>> When looking at the vulnerability I found, there are times when
>> I have wondered if it was a backdoor deliberately planted by the NSA.
>> 
>
> No.  It was simple programming mistake. I can even identify the edit in which
> it was inserted and the responsible engineer.
>

Thanks.

It's actually nice to see you can go that far back in the history.
I thought in the early days of VSI you had some problems with
getting everything from HPE.

> Please recalibrate your tinfoil hat. 

Oh, _that's_ not tinfoil hat territory. :-)

Tinfoil hat territory would be to ask you how can you be sure the
engineer was the one to actually make the change just because that's
what the logs now say. :-)

Simon.

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