"Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Trojan steals Gmail passwords - and charges for it
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> | Not to worry, being a computer programmer himself he used Lutz Roeder's
> | well-known Reflector software to do a bit of reverse engineering. Now,
> | ordinarily trying to figure out someone else's proprietary source code
> is
> |
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> | ethically dodgy, if not illegal. However, what Brooks discovered
> completely
> | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> | overshadowed any such concerns.
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How many more utillities, commercial and shareware programs have these kind
of hacks in them? The only reason that the author was able to read the
source code was that the programmer a) wrote the utillity in C# (.NET) and
b) failed to obfuscate his program. Had the programmer written G-Archiver in
C++ and obfuscated his strings (by XOR'ing them) than the 'flaw' (backdoor)
would never have been revealed.
In a word: you can only trust open-source software!!
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