One attempt thwarted

Posted Nov 13, 2003 2:47 UTC (Thu) by dlang (guest, #313)
In reply to: One attempt thwarted by lm
Parent article: An attempt to backdoor the kernel

the bitkeeper engineers were one of those hundreds of eyeballs, they happened to detect it first.

the only way you will have lots of people reporting the same bug is if they don't read what others have discovered and/or there is a long time period between a bug being discovered and it being announced. the normal situation is one person (or a very small number) discoveringa issue and publicising it for others.

even in this case when Larry first posted about this to the L-K list he didn't post 'someone attempted to put a backdoor in the kernel' he posted 'I noticed something strange, can anyone tell me why this happened' and a few posts later he posted the change that was inserted and a few posts after that a few people noticed that it was a backdoor.