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Black ops: how HBGary wrote backdoors for the government

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Renegade:
Then again 99% of the people in the USA have nothing to worry about the NSA, at least for now.
-rxantos (February 22, 2011, 09:13 AM)
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The ring of truth in that last part is disturbing.

As for Windows back doors, dunno. I'd like to see some evidence for that.

f0dder:
Every windows since Windows 95 have an NSA back-door put in. That is why the only secure way to use windows is on a virtual machine.-rxantos (February 22, 2011, 09:13 AM)
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Proof, please? No? Didn't think so.

I highly doubt there's any obvious "back doors" anywhere in Windows. First, large portions of NT4 and somewhat smaller portions of Win2k have been leaked to the public. Universities and others have had access to much larger subsets under NDAs. People have been scrutinizing the binaries in search of 0-day exploits, to subvert kernel protection, the license codes, windows genuine advantage, et cetera. If there were deliberate backdoors, they would have been found.

That's not to say there might not be some buffer overflows or whatnot that have been put there for the purpose of creating a backdoor, though. But I kinda doubt it, it would be a lot safer to be able to truthfully & fully disclaim such allegations, and utilize one of the numerous accidental 0-day exploits.

Gothi[c]:
http://lcamtuf.blogspot.com/2011/02/world-of-hbgary.html

Linked in the above post is a link to the details of the attack, how hbgary got compromised: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/02/anonymous-speaks-the-inside-story-of-the-hbgary-hack.ars

Gothi[c]:
HBGary Execs Run For Cover As Hacking Scandal Escalates
http://blogs.forbes.com/andygreenberg/2011/02/15/hbgary-execs-run-for-cover-as-hacking-scandal-escalates/

Stoic Joker:
http://lcamtuf.blogspot.com/2011/02/world-of-hbgary.html

Linked in the above post is a link to the details of the attack, how hbgary got compromised: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/02/anonymous-speaks-the-inside-story-of-the-hbgary-hack.ars
-Gothi[c] (February 23, 2011, 05:36 AM)
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Wow - That's completely mind blowing - I will never feel guilty for harping about the 80/20 rule ever again.

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