NT vs. Unix DNS

[Johnny Fribert Lauridsen]

I wrote a 100000 lines of code IP-SNA gateway some time ago (1995).  I opened a backdoor in
the development phase so that I could sneak into the code and the system for testing purposes.
I removed this backdoor when I deployed the code.  This is a normal method for large scale programming.
I think that maybe many programmers forget to remove their backdoors that they opened for test purposes.
This is a warning that programmers are only human beings and they can forget to remove their backdoors.
I think I have removed all of mine ;-)  As an ex-programmer (big scale) I do not trust any code unless I can see
it.  Let us have a look at the Microsoft Code.  I volunteer as a reviewer :-)
Johnny


At 22:02 19/04/2000 -0400, Joseph S D Yao wrote:
>On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 06:44:07PM -0700, Paul Jacobs wrote:
> > Gee... bug or not if someone gets root access it's a backdoor.
>
>What you appear to be asserting now is that for practically any large
>system, some bugs will be found.  I have heard it phrased, "All software
>is Beta."  This is quite likely true, or close enough.
>
>This is quite different from impugning the honour of all programmers
>and software engineers by asserting that everyone deliberately inserts
>back doors.
>
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>Joe Yao                         jsdy at cospo.osis.gov - Joseph S. D. Yao
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