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user-inactivated · 4024 days ago · link · · parent · post: NSA Asked Linus Torvalds To Install Backdoors Into GNU/Linux
What was the NSA thinking? How did they expect for this to go over? You can't anonymously place backdoors in an open source program. Linux's source code is reviewed by so many independent benefactors that it would be noticed soon after the update.
Despite the obvious technology knowledge failures there, who in the right mind in the NSA thought ANYONE involved in Linux projects would allow that to happen? We're here purely because we're passionate about ensuring a world of tech that makes that impossible. I know people involved in various forms with the NSA, they aren't idiots, so clearly someone is an idiot higher up who forced their hand.