Reply From: thomas lakofski <tommy@88.net>
On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, Dodger wrote:
> As for Israel, I
> continue to find it absolutely hysterical that the United States gives
> grants or something like $2bn each year to a country which (a) is a
> right-wing religious nation-state (not all that different from Iran,
> really), (b) has an atrocious human-rights record, and (c) has a long
> history of spying on America. Someone's being played for a sucker and
> it's not Israel.
On a little tangent, I find it interesting that 70% of the world's
corporations use Checkpoint's Firewall-1 to defend their corporate
networks. I think there would be adequate opportunity for Israel's
intelligence community to require subtle backdoors to be placed in the
software. By 'subtle' I mean that with a certain sequence of received
packets (not encounterable in day to day operation -- probably with some
kind of cryptographic challenge) the firewall could be made to turn over
control to an outside party, if the designers so desired. Far-fetched?
Quite likely, but do you have the source code?
-Thomas
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Received on Tue Mar 16 08:58:41 1999