RE: Y2K trojans, and outsourcing...

[Bill_Royds () pch gc ca]

I think the real problem is not deliberate trojans but common incompetence.
Many systems that aree undocumented mdofied by programmers unfamiliar with the
system in a short time with minumum testing.
That is what is normally a recipe for disaster, The number of accidental
backdoors, buffer over runs etc. that all these changes will create will
probably dwarf the $1billion estimate of trojan costs.






Bill Stout <Bill.Stout () AristaSoft com> on 99-07-19 01:54:52 PM

Please respond to Bill Stout <Bill.Stout () AristaSoft com>

To:   "'firewall-wizards () nfr net'" <firewall-wizards () nfr net>
cc:    (bcc: Bill Royds/HullOttawa/PCH/CA)
Subject:  RE: Y2K trojans, and outsourcing...





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
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