NSA Asked Linus Torvalds To Install Backdoors Into GNU/Linux
falkvinge.netThe NSA has asked Linus Torvalds to inject covert backdoors into the free and open operating system GNU/Linux. This was revealed in this week's...
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Yeah I’m guessing the answer would be more colorful based on the historical data we have
Oh man would die to see his reply. It would probably start with something like
“The fact that I have to explain this to a person who works in a national security agency makes me really worried…”
I would pay money to see daddy Linus flip off some big shot intelligence official
Also experience shows that it’s possible to backdoor software in very subtle ways that could go years without anyone spotting them. So if he had decided to he probably could have done it, despite Linux being open source.
https://github.com/corollari/linusrants
This is beautiful. Thank you! lol
Beautiful
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