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Date:      Tue, 9 Jun 2020 23:09:42 -0300
From:      Anatoli <me@anatoli.ws>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Jerry <jerry@seibercom.net>
Subject:   Re: freebsd vs. netbsd
Message-ID:  <2393a1e0-b073-950a-78be-9f57d8e9934b@anatoli.ws>
In-Reply-To: <20200609120136.00005b3c@seibercom.net>
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> Most of those URLs are +/- 10 years old. That is roughly equivalent to
> the MESOZOIC period in computer years.

That’s when the allegations were made and released publicly, over events
that supposedly occurred 20 years ago.

An interesting development happened 10 *months* ago, when the FBI was
requested to release all the information (via a FOIA request) about its
involvement with OpenBSD (spoiler: no backdoors, but other entertaining
details). The [7] link provides the details.


On 9/6/20 13:01, Jerry wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Jun 2020 10:04:50 -0500, Valeri Galtsev commented:
> 
>> [1]: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2010/12/openbsd-code-audit-uncovers-bugs-but-no-evidence-of-backdoor/
>> [2]: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=129236621626462&w=2
>> [3]: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=129296046123471
>> [4]: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2136901/an-fbi-backdoor-in-openbsd-.html
>> [5]: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=129237675106730&w=2
>> [6]: https://www.itworld.com/article/2744922/openbsd-fbi-allegations-denied-by-named-participants.html
>> [7]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20489904
>> [8]: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/12/did_the_fbi_pla.html
> 
> Most of those URLs are +/- 10 years old. That is roughly equivalent to
> the MESOZOIC period in computer years.
> 



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