Comment Re:Carnivore2? (Score 1) 130
'They' might have made special 'requests' of I2 and IPv6. Even with these problems, though, there is probably one very good way around it. I'm going to divurge and talk about IPv6 mainly, but I think the analogy will apply to I2 as well.
The IPv4 implementation for BSD (and the Linux derivitive, I think) were written by true hackers who ___had to know the workings of IPv4 inside and out in order to get it to work on their system. I think it's relatively safe to say that they would have found any hooks or areas of concern rather quickly, having worked so intimately with the protocols.
IPv6 will undoubtedly have the same effect going for it. Someone has to (had?) develop the BSD and GNU/Linux implementations of IPv6. The people most likely to do this aren't the same people that would keep such hooks and 'security measures' hidden from everyone. In fact, they'd probably be much more likely to tell everyone how the protocol works than would governmental or corporate developers.
Maybe it's an unspoken advantage of open-source; it takes more work to pull the wool over the public's eyes than it is worth not to have done the Right Thing to begin with.
The IPv4 implementation for BSD (and the Linux derivitive, I think) were written by true hackers who ___had to know the workings of IPv4 inside and out in order to get it to work on their system. I think it's relatively safe to say that they would have found any hooks or areas of concern rather quickly, having worked so intimately with the protocols.
IPv6 will undoubtedly have the same effect going for it. Someone has to (had?) develop the BSD and GNU/Linux implementations of IPv6. The people most likely to do this aren't the same people that would keep such hooks and 'security measures' hidden from everyone. In fact, they'd probably be much more likely to tell everyone how the protocol works than would governmental or corporate developers.
Maybe it's an unspoken advantage of open-source; it takes more work to pull the wool over the public's eyes than it is worth not to have done the Right Thing to begin with.
