Allegations surfaced Tuesday that the FBI put backdoors into the network stack of OpenBSD. They were made by a Gregory Perry, who claimed to be chief technology officer of NETSEC, a government contractor. The allegations were emailed to Theo de Raadt, founder of OpenBSD. de Raadt sent it on to the OpenBSD community, stating he wouldn’t speak to Perry about the issue and suggesting the community can take whatever action it sees fit. Perry alleged that while he was the chief technology officer at NETSEC, he did some consulting for the FBI’s GSA Technical Support Center.
I think you could have done a little better research on your story. If you search through the OpenBSD archives you'll see emails from Gregory Perry at a NETSEC email address discussing IPsec back in 1998. http://www.monkey.org/openbsd/archive/tech/9807/msg00065.html
I had no problem locating his GoVirtual Education website. http://www.govirtual.tv/ I found the URL on his facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Gregory-Perry/179542468739398
As the other poster said, your choice of references for the story make no sense at all.
Why would you:
- Use a quote from someone at LogLogic regarding history of cryptography, a topic which either he does not know, or you have edited to make it appear he does not know.
- Use a quote from someone about how BSD orginated in the 70's and how there "could have been many changes since then", which is so obviously true in itself as to be valueless, as well as valueless in relation to the topic at hand: code written in 1999-2000. (I think that was after the 70's? You think those might be some of those changes?)
- Query someone at Mozilla about using OpenBSD; what relevance would the operating system or IPSEC have to the web browser?
- Query someone at a small database company about using the code; what has IPSEC to do with a database?
Are these just gratuitous product placements?
Surely if this was real journalism, and you wanted vendor opinion, you would have at least sought out makers of network gear or operating systems, and asked them if this had any effect on them.
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FBI Poked Spy Hole in OpenBSD, Says Former Contractor
Posted by: Richard Adhikari December 15, 2010 12:26 PMAllegations surfaced Tuesday that the FBI put backdoors into the network stack of OpenBSD. They were made by a Gregory Perry, who claimed to be chief technology officer of NETSEC, a government contractor. The allegations were emailed to Theo de Raadt, founder of OpenBSD. de Raadt sent it on to the OpenBSD community, stating he wouldn’t speak to Perry about the issue and suggesting the community can take whatever action it sees fit. Perry alleged that while he was the chief technology officer at NETSEC, he did some consulting for the FBI’s GSA Technical Support Center.
I had no problem locating his GoVirtual Education website. http://www.govirtual.tv/ I found the URL on his facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Gregory-Perry/179542468739398
As the other poster said, your choice of references for the story make no sense at all.
- Use a quote from someone at LogLogic regarding history of cryptography, a topic which either he does not know, or you have edited to make it appear he does not know.
- Use a quote from someone about how BSD orginated in the 70's and how there "could have been many changes since then", which is so obviously true in itself as to be valueless, as well as valueless in relation to the topic at hand: code written in 1999-2000. (I think that was after the 70's? You think those might be some of those changes?)
- Query someone at Mozilla about using OpenBSD; what relevance would the operating system or IPSEC have to the web browser?
- Query someone at a small database company about using the code; what has IPSEC to do with a database?
Are these just gratuitous product placements?
Surely if this was real journalism, and you wanted vendor opinion, you would have at least sought out makers of network gear or operating systems, and asked them if this had any effect on them.