@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 1 month agoNSA Asked Linus Torvalds To Install Backdoors Into GNU/Linux [2013]falkvinge.netexternal-linkmessage-square57fedilinkarrow-up1557arrow-down14file-text
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repost from: https://falkvinge.net/2013/11/17/nsa-asked-linus-torvalds-to-install-backdoors-into-gnulinux
minus-squarePossibly linuxlinkfedilinkEnglish8•1 month agoOr it could of been any person or country. It was a nothing burger and is still a nothing burger
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink26•edit-21 month agoIt was clearly an attack. By who is unknown. Notably this was in 2003 before git (2005) so linux source was in a central bitkeeper repo. So a commit with no associated data about who did it should not have been possible. Here is a more detailed article. https://lwn.net/Articles/57135/
minus-squarePossibly linuxlinkfedilinkEnglish2•1 month agoProud to be an American, at least I know I’m free.
Or it could of been any person or country. It was a nothing burger and is still a nothing burger
It was clearly an attack. By who is unknown.
Notably this was in 2003 before git (2005) so linux source was in a central bitkeeper repo. So a commit with no associated data about who did it should not have been possible.
Here is a more detailed article. https://lwn.net/Articles/57135/
speaking in burger terms as any good american
Proud to be an American, at least I know I’m free.
Free to buy all the hamburgers!