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awiteb@lemmy.4rs.nl to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years ago

NSA Asked Linus Torvalds To Install Backdoors Into GNU/Linux [2013]

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NSA Asked Linus Torvalds To Install Backdoors Into GNU/Linux [2013]

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awiteb@lemmy.4rs.nl to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years ago
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repost from: https://falkvinge.net/2013/11/17/nsa-asked-linus-torvalds-to-install-backdoors-into-gnulinux

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    I wouldn’t be surprised if I knew that the backdoors that appear in Windows were designed by someone. I didn’t know they were this brazen.

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        Yeah, when the actual mobo and cpu can be taken over remotely, what does the OS even matter?

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      I didn’t know they were this brazen.

      Oh boy i remember when i was this innocent

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        I’m not innocent, but this is unbelievable, that they would ask the main developer to plant a virus in it!! This is really rude

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            tbf the article only assumes he told them no because of how implausible it seems the task would be, the actual details of what if anything was discussed and what happened are unknown.

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          of all the things the nsa has done this is probably the nicest

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