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		mschuster91 on Nov 17, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: NSA Asked Linus Torvalds To Install Backdoors Into... I do wonder why the NSA even had the idea to ask Torvalds to commit a backdoor. After all, they know that the code is open and inspectable by anyone...

davidgerard on Nov 17, 2013 | [–]

Remember the earlier hack, where someone got into the CVS mirror of the main git repo and changed "==" to "=" on a check against UID?

http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0311.0/0621.h... http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0311.0/0635.h...

There's lots of introducible security holes that are arguably typos. See also http://underhanded.xcott.com/

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