awiteb@lemmy.4rs.nl to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 年前NSA Asked Linus Torvalds To Install Backdoors Into GNU/Linux [2013]falkvinge.netexternal-linkmessage-square61fedilinkarrow-up1559arrow-down14file-text
arrow-up1555arrow-down1external-linkNSA Asked Linus Torvalds To Install Backdoors Into GNU/Linux [2013]falkvinge.netawiteb@lemmy.4rs.nl to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 年前message-square61fedilinkfile-text
repost from: https://falkvinge.net/2013/11/17/nsa-asked-linus-torvalds-to-install-backdoors-into-gnulinux
minus-squareGolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up58arrow-down1·1 年前But nobody’s going to give them any sentence for that unfortunately.
minus-squareawiteb@lemmy.4rs.nlOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up47·1 年前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.
minus-squareKyrgizion@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up21·1 年前Yeah, when the actual mobo and cpu can be taken over remotely, what does the OS even matter?
minus-squaresunzu2@thebrainbin.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up18arrow-down2·1 年前exploits regularly found in AMD and intel consumer chips didn’t apple chips get spotted with a vulnerability also? m2s?
minus-squareFreudianCafe@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up20arrow-down2·1 年前 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 年前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
minus-squaresunzu2@thebrainbin.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up10·1 年前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.
minus-squarechicken@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-21 年前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.
minus-squaresub_ubi@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up8·1 年前of all the things the nsa has done this is probably the nicest
minus-squareeinkorn@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up16arrow-down1·1 年前For what? Destabilizing the whole technological ecosystem of the planet is not a crime. ¯\(ツ)/¯
But nobody’s going to give them any sentence for that unfortunately.
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
For what? Destabilizing the whole technological ecosystem of the planet is not a crime. ¯\(ツ)/¯