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Subject: RE: NSA backdoors in OS
From: rabbi @ www . valuu . net (Rabbi Haim Cassorla)
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 13:37:56 -0400
To: "Sameer R. Manek" <manek @ challenger . atc . fhda . edu>, "'Peter da Silva'" <peter @ baileynm . com>
Cc: "firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM" <firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM>, "Philippe . Cayphas @ ping . be" <Philippe . Cayphas @ ping . be>

I think you are on to something there!!! Some person (or persons) keeps doing the Flashy Thing to ALL my users!

Shalom
Rabbi Haim Cassorla

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From:  Peter da Silva[SMTP:peter @
 baileynm .
 com]
Sent:  Monday, July 14, 1997 6:16 AM
To:  Sameer R. Manek
Cc:  Philippe .
 Cayphas @
 ping .
 be; firewalls @
 GreatCircle .
 COM
Subject:  Re: NSA backdoors in OS

> This more or less has to be untrue, lets think about this for a second,
> there are the thousands of programmers who work on all the US based
> software companies, all of them have access to the source, or the ones
> who write the backdoors. Don't you think one of them would leak the memo?

That's the story, but really all it took was slipping a Thompson virus
into gcc 1.0. I'd tell you more but they're watching me, and any minute
now they're gonna come by and do that flashy thing again.



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