What's going on with this Linux backdoor stuff?

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[–]HiddenFox 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Overall it could have been bad had it made it into a regular distro. Looks like it was limited to experimentals.

A stable release of Arch had it but not many use it.

Again, could have been very bad.

[–]Musky[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

From what I've read it only got caught because some OCD Microsoft guy was being obsessive and noticed the login taking 500ms longer than it should.

We're lucky that was caught at all.

[–]WoodyWoodPecker 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It is because of all the Rust code being added to the Linux Kernel.