On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 07:54, Sven Anderson wrote: > I have noticed that Red hat came with kernel updates for 7.2 systems after September > 11.th. > I was wonder if kernel updates are released often, and if the new updates include > "open backdoors to the system" for planned bugging or planned intruding. > > ___________________
You got a lot of smart-assed replies but I would like to say in all seriousness that if you have ever read the archives of or subscribed to the kernel list you would probably feel as I do, that there really are people looking at each and every line of code that gets in there. Open source coders are a pretty independent lot and would proclaim from the highest rooftop or at least the place with the greatest bandwidth, that there was some sort of government conspiracy. Keep in mind that Linux development is an international collaboration and not the effort of a single company on which pressure can be applied and thus government intervention of this sort is all but impossible. The red hat patches to the code are not that many and I feel certain that these are looked at by some of the others as well. my $0.02 Bret -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
