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OpenBSD has FBI backdoor, claims contractor

The cryptography of open source operating system OpenBSD was rigged with FBI-sponsored backdoors a decade ago, a former government contractor has told OpenBSD founder Theo De Raadt. A 'backdoor' is an algorithm or rootkit written to allow a third party to bypass usual security controls and gain access to a system. "I wanted to make you aware of the fact that the FBI implemented a number of backdoors," Gregory Perry, former chief technology officer at former government contractor, Netsec, told De Raadt in an email. . . . Perry claimed the FBI paid Netsec to insert the backdoors which he was now free to disclose because a non-disclosure agreement with the FBI had expired. The backdoors would allow the FBI to decipher encrypted traffic and were allegedly planted specifically to monitor the Executive Office for United States Attorneys' (EOUSA) VPN encryption system.

What was that line from Will Smith's wife in Enemy of the State? "Who watches the watchers?"