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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2018-01-08, DaveFroble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
> What shape are his fingers in, after you informed him of his mistake?  :-)
>

VMS Engineers can be female as well...

>> Please recalibrate your tinfoil hat. 
>
> Yeah, lot of that going around ....
>

Much of what would have been considered to be tinfoil hat territory
up to 5 years ago is now known to be established fact.

(And yes, in a few months, it really will be 5 years since Snowden
revealed what the NSA and GCHQ actually get up to. The innocent
time before that seems like another lifetime.)

Simon.

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