awiteb@lemmy.4rs.nl to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 4 months agoNSA Asked Linus Torvalds To Install Backdoors Into GNU/Linux [2013]falkvinge.netexternal-linkmessage-square63fedilinkarrow-up1560arrow-down15file-text
arrow-up1555arrow-down1external-linkNSA Asked Linus Torvalds To Install Backdoors Into GNU/Linux [2013]falkvinge.netawiteb@lemmy.4rs.nl to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square63fedilinkfile-text
repost from: https://falkvinge.net/2013/11/17/nsa-asked-linus-torvalds-to-install-backdoors-into-gnulinux
minus-squareawiteb@lemmy.4rs.nlOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·4 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-squaresunzu2@thebrainbin.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up10·4 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-up4·edit-24 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.
minus-squaresub_ubi@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up8·4 months agoof all the things the nsa has done this is probably the nicest
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