From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,85034d1ac78a66eb X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-03-27 05:34:31 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!freenix!sunqbc.risq.qc.ca!newsfeed.mathworks.com!nycmny1-snh1.gtei.net!cambridge1-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3CA1C9F9.F0E216AF@despammed.com> From: Wes Groleau Reply-To: wesgroleau@despammed.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,es-MX,es,pt,fr-CA,fr MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada Operating System References: <3C88E0D1.89161C16@despammed.com> <3C9514DD.9CF1F84A@san.rr.com> <99da9u0909rsblfdcc1ru7jd2r9q461qhk@4ax.com> <436o9uc7jg590rv5rb1l9v6be8vk49s278@4ax.com> <3CA0A0EA.F0CEEC89@despammed.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 08:32:41 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.168.144.162 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com 1017235969 151.168.144.162 (Wed, 27 Mar 2002 07:32:49 CST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 07:32:49 CST Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:21721 Date: 2002-03-27T08:32:41-05:00 List-Id: > known. That actually brings up another problem: Assuming you were billing > the system as "secure" by some definition, how would you be sure that any > given distribution *didn't* include a back door? That would be one heck of > an audit process, eh? :-) How about a contractual provision that if a backdoor is ever discovered, the vendor pays some humongous penalty to the purchaser? :-) -- Wes Groleau http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau