CDR: Re: Bad Coding Practices

[David Honig]

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.