Why "carnivore" type systems can't be (entirely) open source

[Brian Gladman]

From: "David Hansen" <davidh@spidacom.co.uk>
To: <ukcrypto@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 9:05 AM
Subject: Re: Why "carnivore" type systems can't be (entirely) open source

> On 3 Feb 01, at 23:49, Brian Gladman wrote:
>
> > And dishonest men sell broken ones with known weaknesses that are
> > hidden by STO.
>
> A perfect description of Lotus Notes, as was it the Swedish
> government found out.

Thank you, David, for reminding us of that example.   And this of course is
just one that slipped out into the open.

Most of these probably go undetected and even when they are detected 
the target organisations will often not openly admit that they have fallen 
for the scam.

    Brian