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NSA Asked Linus Torvalds To Install Backdoors Into GNU/Linux [2013] (falkvinge.net)

submitted 2 years ago by awiteb@lemmy.4rs.nl to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 57 points 2 years ago (2 children)

But nobody's going to give them any sentence for that unfortunately.

[–] awiteb@lemmy.4rs.nl 48 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 25 points 2 years ago (2 children)

chips too

[–] Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago

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

[–] FreudianCafe@lemmy.ml 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I didn't know they were this brazen.

Oh boy i remember when i was this innocent

[–] awiteb@lemmy.4rs.nl 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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.

[–] sub_ubi@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago

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

[–] einkorn@feddit.org 15 points 2 years ago

For what? Destabilizing the whole technological ecosystem of the planet is not a crime. ¯\(ツ)/¯