awiteb@lemmy.4rs.nl to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 11 months agoNSA Asked Linus Torvalds To Install Backdoors Into GNU/Linux [2013]falkvinge.netexternal-linkmessage-square62fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10file-text
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repost from: https://falkvinge.net/2013/11/17/nsa-asked-linus-torvalds-to-install-backdoors-into-gnulinux
minus-squareawiteb@lemmy.4rs.nlOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·11 months 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-up0·11 months agoYeah, when the actual mobo and cpu can be taken over remotely, what does the OS even matter?
minus-squaresunzu2@thebrainbin.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up0·11 months agoexploits regularly found in AMD and intel consumer chips didn’t apple chips get spotted with a vulnerability also? m2s?
minus-squareFreudianCafe@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·11 months ago I didn’t know they were this brazen. Oh boy i remember when i was this innocent
minus-squareawiteb@lemmy.4rs.nlOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·11 months 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-squaresub_ubi@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·11 months agoof all the things the nsa has done this is probably the nicest
minus-squaresunzu2@thebrainbin.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up0·11 months 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-up0·edit-211 months 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.
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
of all the things the nsa has done this is probably the nicest
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.