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@awiteb@lemmy.4rs.nl to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish • 9 months 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
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The 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...

repost from: https://falkvinge.net/2013/11/17/nsa-asked-linus-torvalds-to-install-backdoors-into-gnulinux

  • @hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    0•9 months ago

    The story does not tell us how Linus Torvalds responded to the NSA, but I’m guessing he told them he wouldn’t be able to inject backdoors even if he wanted to, since the source code is open, and all changes to it are reviewed by many independent people.

    Yeah I’m guessing the answer would be more colorful based on the historical data we have

    • @reisub@discuss.tchncs.de
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      based on the historical data

      https://github.com/corollari/linusrants

      • @bitfucker@programming.dev
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        There aren’t enough swear-words in the English language, so now I’ll have to call you perkeleen vittupää just to express my disgust and frustration with this crap.

        Beautiful

        • @zbyte64@awful.systems
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          It’s like our very own Gordon Ramsay

      • Socialist Mormon Satanist
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        https://github.com/corollari/linusrants

        This is beautiful. Thank you! lol

    • @floofloof@lemmy.ca
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      0•9 months ago

      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.

    • @Sylvartas@lemmy.world
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      I would pay money to see daddy Linus flip off some big shot intelligence official

    • @iAvicenna@lemmy.world
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      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…”

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