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

[John Reagan]

On Monday, January 8, 2018 at 1:25:53 PM UTC-5, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2018-01-08, dgordonatvsi <> 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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> Simon Clubley, clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
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Or if the engineer in question was a NSA sleeper agent