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NSA Asked Linus Torvalds To Install Backdoors Into GNU/Linux [2013]

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NSA Asked Linus Torvalds To Install Backdoors Into GNU/Linux [2013]

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Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 months ago

NSA Asked Linus Torvalds To Install Backdoors Into GNU/Linux

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The NSA has asked Linus Torvalds to inject covert backdoors into the free and open operating system GNU/Linux. This was revealed in this week's...

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