29 Sep
2000
29 Sep
'00
7:44 p.m.
At 09:00 PM 9/28/00 -0400, Steven Furlong wrote:
"Trei, Peter" wrote:
<<NSA et al inducing a company to write bad crypto software>>
2. Individual treachery.
This type involves corrupting one or more engineers, whether via money, threats, or misplaced appeals to patriotism. This is more likely to succeed in the short term than type 1, but is very fragile for several reasons familiar to anyone who has done commercial software development.
On the flip side: In yesterday's news the FAA was getting abuse for hiring lots of furriner-contractors with lapsed clearances to do y2k and other work. The feds fear the same subversion that citizens fear of the NSA.