awiteb@lemmy.4rs.nl to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 months agoNSA Asked Linus Torvalds To Install Backdoors Into GNU/Linux [2013]falkvinge.netexternal-linkmessage-square59fedilinkarrow-up1543arrow-down14file-text
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minus-squarePossibly linux@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21arrow-down12·3 months agoOr it could of been any person or country. It was a nothing burger and is still a nothing burger
minus-squareHugin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up25·edit-23 months agoIt was clearly an attack. By who is unknown. Notably this was in 2003 before git (2005) so linux source was in a central bitkeeper repo. So a commit with no associated data about who did it should not have been possible. Here is a more detailed article. https://lwn.net/Articles/57135/
Or it could of been any person or country. It was a nothing burger and is still a nothing burger
It was clearly an attack. By who is unknown.
Notably this was in 2003 before git (2005) so linux source was in a central bitkeeper repo. So a commit with no associated data about who did it should not have been possible.
Here is a more detailed article. https://lwn.net/Articles/57135/