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awiteb@lemmy.4rs.nl to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 11 months ago

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

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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

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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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      chips too

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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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          exploits regularly found in AMD and intel consumer chips

          didn’t apple chips get spotted with a vulnerability also? m2s?

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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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          He is lucky he is no a US national… that convo could have gone down differently. People telling US spooks no, don’t live long.

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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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