[GUFSC] Linux: Kernel "Back Door" Attempt

[Ricardo Grützmacher]

> Por outro lado, fica um alerta para que os usuarios considerem os
> riscos antes de baixar e instalar programas, mesmo se tratando de
> software livre.

Ainda assim os softwares livres são a melhor escolha.

Vejam a rapidez com a qual o problema foi descoberto e resolvido.
Nos sistemas proprietários um problema desse pode nunca ser descoberto.
Quando abriram o código do Interbase por exemplo qual foi a surpresa?

Leiam
http://slashdot.org/articles/01/01/11/1318207.shtml

Interbase Backdoor, Secret for Six Years, Revealed in Source
Posted by michael on Thursday January 11, @08:20AM
from the all-die-o-the-embarassment dept.
Diesel Dave writes "CERT Advisory CA-2001-01 announced today that the 
Interbase server database contains a compiled-in back door account. The 
thing is, it was not the result of a malicious code infection, but a 
direct addition by the original Borland/Inprise authors done before the 
program was released as open source." The backdoor was installed 
sometime between 1992 and 1994, and has been included in every version 
of Interbase during that time.

At.
Ricardo.