awiteb@lemmy.4rs.nl to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year agoNSA Asked Linus Torvalds To Install Backdoors Into GNU/Linux [2013]falkvinge.netexternal-linkmessage-square61fedilinkarrow-up1561arrow-down14file-text
arrow-up1557arrow-down1external-linkNSA Asked Linus Torvalds To Install Backdoors Into GNU/Linux [2013]falkvinge.netawiteb@lemmy.4rs.nl to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square61fedilinkfile-text
repost from: https://falkvinge.net/2013/11/17/nsa-asked-linus-torvalds-to-install-backdoors-into-gnulinux
minus-squareawiteb@lemmy.4rs.nlOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up48·1 year agoI 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.
minus-squareKyrgizion@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up21·1 year agoYeah, when the actual mobo and cpu can be taken over remotely, what does the OS even matter?
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minus-squaresunzu2@thebrainbin.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up18arrow-down2·1 year agoexploits regularly found in AMD and intel consumer chips didn’t apple chips get spotted with a vulnerability also? m2s?
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minus-squareFreudianCafe@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up20arrow-down2·1 year ago I didn’t know they were this brazen. Oh boy i remember when i was this innocent
minus-squareawiteb@lemmy.4rs.nlOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·1 year agoI’m not innocent, but this is unbelievable, that they would ask the main developer to plant a virus in it!! This is really rude
minus-squaresunzu2@thebrainbin.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up10·1 year agoHe is lucky he is no a US national… that convo could have gone down differently. People telling US spooks no, don’t live long.
minus-squarechicken@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-21 year agotbf 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.
minus-squaresub_ubi@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up8·1 year agoof all the things the nsa has done this is probably the nicest
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.
chips too
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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Oh boy i remember when i was this innocent
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
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.
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.
of all the things the nsa has done this is probably the nicest