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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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Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 5 months ago

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

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he wouldn’t be able to inject backdoors even if he wanted to, since the source code is open

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  The project contains binary blobs anyway so theoretically it wouldn’t be super hard

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