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Complexity  ·  4024 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: NSA Asked Linus Torvalds To Install Backdoors Into GNU/Linux

Or not: http://mashable.com/2013/09/19/linus-torvalds-backdoor-linux/

| "Oh, Christ. It was obviously a joke, no government agency has ever asked me for a backdoor in Linux," Torvalds told Mashable via email. "Really. Cross my heart and hope to die, really."





    user-inactivated  ·  4023 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    It sounds like he's being sarcastic. Hyperbolic speech indicates that.

      Really. Cross my heart and hope to die, really.
    as opposed to just saying "no."