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Calgary, Canada (AHN) – A former network service provider official’s revelation that the OpenBSD had been planted with backdoors to allow the FBI to secretly bypass the security of private networks using the open source operating system sparked code audits from developers.

Ex-NETSEC chief technology officer Gregory Perry informed BSD project leader Theo de Raadt in an e-mail that the company’s developers were paid to plant the so-called backdoors in the OpenBSD 10 years ago. Perry also claimed that the FBI backdoors prompted the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) of the U.S. Department of Defense to cancel funding for the OpenBSD in 2003.

Raadt forwarded Perry’s e-mail to the OpenBSD mailing list Tuesday so developers can verify if the backdoors exist or have spread in other software platforms.

A backdoor can allow the FBI to secure remote access to a computer undetected. As the OpenBSD code was free, it was adapted in many projects and products over the past decade.

The platform has a reputation of superior security but the existence of backdoors would prove otherwise.

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