Reply From: thomas lakofski <tommyat_private> 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 -o- Subscribe: mail majordomoat_private with "subscribe isn". Today's ISN Sponsor: Internet Security Institute [www.isi-sec.com]
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