Routers/Gateways/Firewalls are highly interesting for big brother. Officially they wanted to force Lavabit to just hand out Edward Snowden's emails (bad enough), but in reality they wanted to gain access to all emails of Lavabit by receiving the SSL masterkeys and by placing the blackbox at their premises, which rendered the whole service useless.Ģ. Lavabit did not agree - and they shut him down. Recently they forced the small encrypted-email-service "Lavabit" to comply with them (hand out their SSL-masterkeys & install a "black-box" at their premises). Infiltrate routers with the fact that they very well bother knocking theĭoors of small businesses with niche products, I guess my question isĪlthough I doubt the NSA really needs cooperation from these guys. So, combining those 2 facts - the fact that the NSA/FBI/etc. this article "NSA Laughs at PCs, Prefers Hacking Routers and ![]() The SSL masterkeys and by placing the blackbox at their premises, whichĢ. Reality they wanted to gain access to all emails of Lavabit by receiving Lavabit to just hand out Edward Snowden's emails (bad enough), but in ![]() Recently they forced the small encrypted-email-service "Lavabit" toĬomply with them (hand out their SSL-masterkeys & install a "black-box"Īt their premises). Includes bad things, but if the company behind pfSense has beenĪpproached (yet) by authorities to comply with their Orwellian globalĪlthough I doubt the NSA really needs cooperation from these guys.ĭoes anyone else care to comment doubts about the NSA/FBI/ bothering with smaller companies such asĮlectric Sheep Fencing LLC (formerly BSD perimeter) and their nicheġ. Get the big picture? I guess in 99% of smaller projects no one has EVERĬhecked any serious amount of code - let alone the the entire code baseīut again back to my main question: My main question was not if the code But does anybody? Check the *entire* code and ![]() "everyone can 'just' read the code and check himself" is nothing more Some cases might not be sufficient, because ofīy my opinion the often proclaimed higher security of open source due to please also keep in mind, that even reading and understanding code in that generally *in reality* nobody bothers to review any codeīecause everyone thinks that "the huge user base of this open source that it should not be "fairly easy" for anyone to read the entireĬode base of such a huge project such as pfSenseģ. that I (and i guess 95% of all other users) can hardly read ANYĢ. Should be fairly easy to check for backdoors :)ġ. I also understand your point though, since the software is OSS, it
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