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NSA Asked Linus Torvalds To Install Backdoors Into GNU/Linux [2013]

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Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish • 8 months ago

NSA Asked Linus Torvalds To Install Backdoors Into GNU/Linux

The NSA has asked Linus Torvalds to inject covert backdoors into the free and open operating system GNU/Linux. This was revealed in this week's...

repost from: https://falkvinge.net/2013/11/17/nsa-asked-linus-torvalds-to-install-backdoors-into-gnulinux

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chips too
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  Yeah, when the actual mobo and cpu can be taken over remotely, what does the OS even matter?
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  - sunzu2
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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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