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

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

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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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good thing he’s not an American citizen
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  Except he is. He lives in portland now afaik
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    it’s over

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