GPL upheld in France [LWN.net]

GPL upheld in France

Posted Sep 26, 2009 6:19 UTC (Sat) by Cato (guest, #7643)
In reply to: GPL upheld in France by marcH
Parent article: GPL upheld in France

The hidden hard-coded password must have been intentional - it's not just a mistake like failing to check the length of a buffer. Someone had to decide to put in a backdoor, and perhaps keeping this secret is why no GPL source was published.

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GPL upheld in France

Posted Oct 3, 2009 23:31 UTC (Sat) by marcH (subscriber, #57642) [Link]

> The hidden hard-coded password must have been intentional - it's not just a mistake like failing to check the length of a buffer. Someone had to decide to put in a backdoor

Or someone might have decided to hardcode a password only for convenience, and then hide it just for "security". It does not mean they planned to actually use it as a backdoor. Skype is doing something like this (in a more elaborated way), and no one brought them to a court yet.