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Why Using 2 or 3 Simple Words May Be the Best Password Protection of All
What makes a great password may not be its complexity but how many words you want to string in a row.
Passwords get hacked in five basic ways, writes Thomas Baekdal in a blog post on the topic:
Update: OpenBSD Backdoor Seems Unlikely
Last week we reported on accusations that FBI contractors had planted backdoors in the open source operating system OpenBSD. OpenBSD developers have been auditing code since the accusations surfaced last Tuesday. Some bugs have been found and patched, but no evidence of backdoors has been discovered. OpenBSD founder Theo de Raadt believes believes that if said backdoors were ever authored they never made it into OpenBSD.
Gregory Perry, a former employee of the now defunct security firm NETSEC, sent de Raadt an e-mail last week accusing Jason Wright of planting backdoors in OpenBSD on behalf of the FBI. Wright has firmly denied the charge.
Did the FBI Build Backdoors Into OpenBSD?
The FBI is being accused of planting backdoors in the security-focused open source operating system OpenBSD. OpenBSD is used in commercial security products such as firewalls from Calyptix and .vantronix. Thus far, a code audit has not revealed any backdoors in OpenBSD but some bugs have been found.
Earlier this week, OpenBSD founder Theo de Raadt forwarded an e-mail from Gregory Perry, former CTO of the defunct security company NETSEC, to the OpenBSD mailing list. NETSEC paid developers to contribute to OpenBSD during the 90s. Perry claims that former NETSEC developer Jason Wright and his development team inserted backdoors into the OpenBSD Crypto Framework under the direction of the FBI - a claim Wright firmly denies. Perry claims to be coming forward now because his 10 year nondisclosure agreement with the FBI has expired.