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The Linux Backdoor Attempt of 2003 [2013]
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[–]binaryblob 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 4 months ago (5 children)
Of course the Linux kernel is backdoored; it's just done in a way more sophisticated manner than anyone ever learns at any university. The technology in use by the intelligence agencies would be considered "contrived and unrealistic by academics", but "contrived, expensive and unrealistic" is exactly what these people do all day long.
The Linux kernel could even be perfectly safe, but all relevant hardware at the time could have fundamental flaws from a security point of view due to economic constraints like power saving, etc. From what I understand SPECTRE only has gotten worse and all the "mitigations" basically don't work.
Just imagine that your only existence in life is to fuck up computing systems, while the rest of the world only has "it should appear to work" as a bar. That's the world we live in and additionally all systems in active use have been designed by what employees of an intelligence agency would only describe as "complete morons".
[–]LarrySwinger2 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 4 months ago (4 children)
You got a source for any of that? There's no proof that Linux is backdoored, there are patches against Spectre, there's less and less of an appeal to work for intelligence agencies for competent people, and cybersecurity goes much further than "it should appear to work". They made an OS that runs almost all software in VMs for isolation and to protect the firmware of the components from getting compromised, with dom0 having only limited network access. It's called Qubes. (To name one example.)
[–]binaryblob 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 4 months ago (3 children)
The Snowden files would be a source to see the kinds of things they do.
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