[jmclnx]

I remember this, it was the FBI. OpenBSD people did a huge audit and nothing was found. That was also like 20 years ago.

Also, other articles stated that never happened.

Plus, the "backdoor" in OpenSSH was a Linux only thing possibly related to systemd. It never affected OpenBSD. That is because of Linux people patching OpenSSH with "dependency hell". I believe systemd people is doing something about these dependency chains.

[Arch-TK]

The "thing to do" about the dependencies is not to have them in the first place. Distributions where patching OpenSSH to add a libsystemd dependency instead of adding 15 lines of code.

[fijiaarone]

So you’re saying more than 1 person was paid to put the back door in.

[bigiain]

And at least one of them was intentionally whistleblown to create an OpenBSD witchhunt wasting both OpenBSD developers time and distraction all the other *BSD and Linux security/devs, while the _real_ target slid under the radar...