On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 05:02:52AM +0200, arne wrote: [cut]
> > Hi, > > I don't remind which kernel. > but is was in the press for sure: > USA authorities were given a backdoor > in the kernel. > Could have been 2.6 > For security, fighting criminals whats however. > > There was absolutely no resistance in those days. > Not any. > Again, how difficult is it to find links to concrete references that can substantiate your claims? Not difficult at all, especially since the relevant links (search for "linux kernel backdoor" anywhere, there are literally hundreds): https://www.securityfocus.com/news/7388 https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2013/10/09/the-linux-backdoor-attempt-of-2003/ confirm instead that there *was* immediate resistance, and that the alleged "backdoor" (which many in the kernel development team concluded was probably just a silly bug), was discovered shortly after the patch was submitted, and never stood a chance to enter a released kernel: https://lwn.net/Articles/57135/ All those links (and many other ones on that story) confirm what many of us have been saying so far, which is perfectly summarised by the first comment to the last article above: "What I think stands out the most was not that the CVS gateway was hacked and questionable code inserted -- it was the speed and cooperation that allowed it to be quickly detected, removed and preventive measures taken to make it more difficult for such a compromise to take place. This is an EXCELLENT example of one of the strengths of Open Source Development -- hundreds of eyes looking at the same thing." Unless you are talking about another "Linux kernel backdoor" story that was widely covered by the press in 2013, and then carefully and completely removed from the Internet by the US government? Oh look, they did a very bad job: I managed to find two links (among mane other ones): https://thehackernews.com/2013/09/us-government-asked-linus-torvalds-to.html https://falkvinge.net/2013/11/17/nsa-asked-linus-torvalds-to-install-backdoors-into-gnulinux/ which refer to the famous interview at LinuxCon 2013, and have nothing to do with the *existence* of an NSA backdoor in the Linux kernel, rather with the fact that the NSA had put pressure on Linus to put such a backdoor there. Being a "veteran" has never been a sufficient excuse from the obligation to support your claims with actual facts. This is not a religion, and there has never been anything like a revealed gospel in the free software community[1]. HND KatolaZ [1] The only exception being that Emacs is the Only True and Holy Editor, and that ViViVi is the number of The Beast, as revealed by the venerable St. IGNUcius during his peregrinations around the world... :P -- [ ~.,_ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ - Devuan -- Freaknet Medialab ] [ "+. katolaz [at] freaknet.org --- katolaz [at] yahoo.it ] [ @) http://kalos.mine.nu --- Devuan GNU + Linux User ] [ @@) http://maths.qmul.ac.uk/~vnicosia -- GPG: 0B5F062F ] [ (@@@) Twitter: @KatolaZ - skype: katolaz -- github: KatolaZ ]
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