NSA ask For backdoors into Linux

[TALHA]

The NSA contacted Linus Torvalds, the father of Linux/GNU, to ask about injecting surreptitious backdoors into the popular open-source operating system, his father has disclosed to the European Parliament.

 

 

In yet another embarrassing revelation of the NSA’s astonishing malpractice, Nils Torvalds — Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Finland and more famously the father of Linus Torvalds — disclosed in a European Parliament hearing this week that the  intelligence agency had contacted his son with regards to the injection of clandestine “backdoors” into the widely-used Linux/GNU operating system.

Christian Engström, MEP for the Swedish Pirate Party, explained to the inquiry panel that in open-source development, such backdoors cannot exist without being reviewed on multiple levels by developers around the world as the entirety of the system source code is freely available for all to read and examine. He continued to put to Microsoft’s representative on the panel that ‘In Microsoft’s systems, this possibility is absent, since the source code is secret to outsiders

 

source link:http://vr-zone.com/articles/nsa-asked-linus-torvalds-inject-backdoors-linuxgnu/64174.html#

[Andrew0472]

ooooooooooooooh no nsa can see that i sit on linustechtips and watch linus' youtube videos... sorry i had to ahah

[Kilerbomb]

Piss off, NSA.

[delet my acc pls]

Sweden have the best party names.

[Giggitygoebbels]

However i still believe the popular distros like ubuntu,opensuse and fedora have these backdoors.NSA might also implement them into popular apps/plugins/programs so that lesser known linux systems will also be most probably be spyed.

I do not think someone will go and read the source code(which is way longer than a EULA) to see if NSA have made some fishy thing going on or something.

SteamOS i guess should also have these backdoors.

[James_AJ]

freaking... NSA didn't put backdoors into linux yet?

[ivhyn]

Fuck you NSA.

[Titanicium]

Say hello to the new Stasi…

 

Soon they will have an archive for the shoe size of every single human that has ever lived  :mellow:

[coen113]

Sweden have the best party names.

we also have a Pirate Party

[miyabwah]

Why you gotta do this, NSA?

[LOLPhilips]

I can't decide whether I'm angry at stuff like this, or I don't give a shit because they (NSA) probably know more then enough by now anyway...

 

Don't really care if they know what movies I like.. Or when they see what kind of porn I watch..

[Bentheguy]

The NSA are getting on my nerves again.

[Mooshi]

The NSA are more desperate than the middle aged man going after high school girls, christ.

[Ookami]

They can backdoor their employees

[Damikiller37]

They better keep their filthy hands away from Linux since it will ruin it especially when it's about to kick off and get really big with Steam OS.

[hiyayhi]

It won't happen. If they put a backdoor into one kernel some guy will just make a kernel that doesn't have it in it. That's how open source works. Sure they might eventually get backdoor access into some distros of linux but I can guarantee you that there will be no access into every distro.

[Nicktrance]

[OCcomet]

Not sure what this world is coming to..

[qwertywarrior]

i wonder

is  it possible to have backdoors in drivers for linux  ?

like nics 

[ForsakenLive]

I Thought there were already backdoors on the Linux kernel (the dark areas where there is no open code), as stated some time ago by Linus Torvalds himself on a press conference.

[Agons]

This was news about a year ago..

[afa7336]

So basically, the evidence for this happening is what again? People jumping to conclusions on what an answer No with a nod? Or an alleged phone call, that there is no proof of? Seriously people, facts facts facts! SMH.

[Razarza]

Didn't this happen a couple months ago?