@awiteb@lemmy.4rs.nl to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish • 9 months agoNSA Asked Linus Torvalds To Install Backdoors Into GNU/Linux [2013]falkvinge.netexternal-linkmessage-square64fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10file-text
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minus-squarePossibly linuxlinkfedilinkEnglish0•9 months agoOr it could of been any person or country. It was a nothing burger and is still a nothing burger
minus-square@desertdruid@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilink0•9 months agospeaking in burger terms as any good american
minus-squarePossibly linuxlinkfedilinkEnglish0•9 months agoProud to be an American, at least I know I’m free.
minus-square@Hugin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink0•9 months 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 swindl article. https://lwn.net/Articles/57135/
Or it could of been any person or country. It was a nothing burger and is still a nothing burger
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!
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 swindl article. https://lwn.net/Articles/57135/