18 Dec
2003
18 Dec
'03
8:17 a.m.
Frank O'Dwyer <fod@brd.ie> opines:
Yes it does, but not quite in the same way. For example, I believe that in days of yore some attackers managed to insert a back door into some DEC OS by breaking into the coding environment (I don't recall the details, does anyone else?).
<http://www.acm.org/classics/sep95/> describes how the inventors of Unix inserted a backdoor into the Unix login program. It's well worth reading. However, there is no indication that this trojan horse ever shipped to customers.
So in other words, not only _could_ this happen with non-OSS, it _has_ happened, and no doubt it happens reasonably often.
I doubt it. Martin Minow minow@pobox.com