Re: Fedora Core 2 Test 2 - delayed

[Russell Coker <russell coker com au>]

On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 23:54, Leonard den Ottolander <leonard den ottolander nl> 
wrote:
> How well scrutinized is this NSA code actually? Everybody can see they
> won't slip in an obvious backdoor, but how about nasty little overflows,
> tucked away deep inside the code, for which they already have exploits
> in their drawer?

If you create an account on a free mail service and send in a patch to Linus 
that looks good there's a chance that it will get accepted.

If the NSA people were going to do something nasty why would they do it in 
code that's got their name on it when they could send in code from 
random_user hotmail com?

Also the SE Linux kernel code is written in a clearer style than most kernel 
code.  If you want to audit code for correct operation the SE Linux code will 
be easier than most.

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