RE: Y2K trojans, and outsourcing...

[Bill Stout <Bill.Stout () AristaSoft com>]

Interesting that the big Y2K topic last year from the CIA was about foreign
programmers brought in to do Y2K repair, where the programmers were trojan
spies, trojaning systems.
http://cgi.pathfinder.com/time/digital/daily/0,2822,13799,00.html

One day a CIA issue, next an NBC issue.

Bill Stout

-----Original Message-----
From: R. DuFresne [mailto:dufresne () sysinfo com]
Sent: Friday, July 16, 1999 4:01 PM
To: firewall-wizards () nfr net
Subject: Y2K trojans, and outsourcing...

The national news for NBC ran an interesting topic tonight;

Estimating that some company/industry faces a loss potential of a billion
or more at least, due to a backdooring trojan inserted by one or more
consultants brought in to fix the Y2K problem...

Thanks,

Ron DuFresne
-- 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
        admin & senior consultant:  darkstar.sysinfo.com
                  http://darkstar.sysinfo.com

"Cutting the space budget really restores my faith in humanity.  It
eliminates dreams, goals, and ideals and lets us get straight to the
business of hate, debauchery, and self-annihilation."
                -- Johnny Hart

testing, only testing, and damn good at it too!