Re: [cobalt-users] procmail and other GPL source...

[baltimoremd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Steve Werby wrote:

> <baltimoremd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Sounds real nice....and I'd be willing to buy the logic if I hadn't heard
> > from a reliable source that there is at least one person who is not and
> > employee of Sun/Cobalt who has access to the back door.

> employees are aware and able to utilize it.  I challenge anyone on list to
> find proof of anyone claiming *first-hand* knowledge of such a back door.

I would be happier than a pig in poop to find out that my suppostions
are wrong...and state so in public.

> back door available to anyone who knows the secrets involved.  And I'm
> supposed to be speaking on the phone with that person Thursday or Friday so
> I'll pick his brain and report back to the list whether this person has
> access to a back door...or knows of one.

Regardless of that person's answer, the question still remains:
Is there a backdoor?

If there is, there is a potential that knowledge of same could, through
whatever means, become available to someone other than Cobalt support.

Years ago I worked in an environment that required my boss and I to have
access to hundreds of locks.  He had keys...I refused to carry the keys or
have a set....for the simple reason that if there was no second set, it
couldn't be compromised.

I'd feel a lot more comfortable if Cobalt told us there was no back door.

> I may eat my words tomorrow and I won't be upset if a Jeff/Lyle/Taco chimes
> in and puts me in my place,

Ah, we seem to agree that some statement from Cobalt could put the issue
to rest.

Thom

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