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lemmyreader ( lemmyreader@lemmy.ml )  to Open Source@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 years ago

Inside the failed attempt to backdoor SSH globally - that got caught by chance - Kevin Beaumont

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Inside the failed attempt to backdoor SSH globally - that got caught by chance - Kevin Beaumont

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lemmyreader ( lemmyreader@lemmy.ml )  to Open Source@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 years ago
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    I don’t think this one counts as a big win to be honest It was just freakish luck

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      It’s definitely freakish luck but at least it got found out. A closed source software would have gone through unnoticed.

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        the fact that it was found by luck, not methodically, to me implies that there probably are other backdoors we didn’t get lucky with.

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        Or found out in corporate code review / pentest. We just don’t know. I get that we want to say FOSS is great due to the “many eyes/shallow bugs” thing, but that didn’t work for OpenSSL or log4j. The fact that it did now is great, but let’s not get carried away. It was just pure luck.

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