Linux creator admits NSA demanded backdoor

[PatColo]

Linux creator admits NSA demanded backdoor (http://grizzom.blogspot.com/2013/09/linux-creator-admits-nsa-demanded.html)

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Speaking at the keynote LinuxCon panel this year, Linus Torvalds, who created the open-source Linux operating system 22 years ago, revealed that the government had approached him about installing a backdoor into system’s structure. Linux is the preferred operating system for the privacy conscious infosec community.

It’s just the latest in a string of revelations illustrating how the NSA have for a number of years attempted to intervene in the very structuring of online communications and cryptography to enable easier surveillance.

***Read article at SALON*** (http://www.salon.com/2013/09/19/linux_creator_admits_nsa_demanded_backdoor/)


Posted by WHOOLI (http://www.blogger.com/profile/12745432266860223770) at 8:30 AM No comments: (http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5440450620561193447&postID=1634859183501398594)

[chud]

He has clarified that he did NOT install a backdoor for the NSA.
Linus has a very dry sense of humor.

[Hatha Sunahara]

What kind of clarification is that--- shaking your head indicating yes while saying 'no'? Is that a yes or a no? The question was if he had been approached by the government to install a backdoor in Linux.

Well, now we have an ambiguous answer as to whether he was approached by the government about a backdoor, and nothing at all said about whether he complied with that request.

I'd like to know. I use Linux expressly to maintain my privacy. If I don't have that, I might as well just use Windows.


Hatha

[Half Sense]

There are hundreds of programmers looking at the Linux kernel code. If there was a back door, a new kernel WITHOUT the back door would splinter off the main codebase and become the standard.

[Shami-Amourae]

The BRICS countries are now doing their own Internet line to be independent of the NSA's Jewry:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-brics-independent-internet-in-defiance-of-the-us-centric-internet/5350272
http://www.bricscable.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/netw_geo.jpg



Links Russia, China, India, South Africa, Brazil – the BRICS economies – and the United States.
Interconnect with regional and other continental cable systems in Asia, Africa and South America for improved global coverage
Immediate access to 21 African countries and give those African countries access to the BRICS economies.
Projected ready for service date is mid to second half of 2015.

[Shami-Amourae]

He has clarified that he did NOT install a backdoor for the NSA.
Linus has a very dry sense of humor.

That's why the only software you can trust is open source. When you have the public working on code it's always self correcting and transparent. Even if Linus went along with the NSA other programmers would figure it out pretty quickly and it would be corrected by the community.

[Uncle Salty]

The BRICS countries are now doing their own Internet line to be independent of the NSA's Jewry:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-brics-independent-internet-in-defiance-of-the-us-centric-internet/5350272
http://www.bricscable.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/netw_geo.jpg



Links Russia, China, India, South Africa, Brazil – the BRICS economies – and the United States.
Interconnect with regional and other continental cable systems in Asia, Africa and South America for improved global coverage
Immediate access to 21 African countries and give those African countries access to the BRICS economies.
Projected ready for service date is mid to second half of 2015.


From the same article:


BRICS together create an economy the size of Italy every year… that’s the 8th largest economy in the world

Somebody is a sloppy writer.

[gunDriller]

What kind of clarification is that--- shaking your head indicating yes while saying 'no'? Is that a yes or a no? The question was if he had been approached by the government to install a backdoor in Linux.

Well, now we have an ambiguous answer as to whether he was approached by the government about a backdoor, and nothing at all said about whether he complied with that request.

I'd like to know. I use Linux expressly to maintain my privacy. If I don't have that, I might as well just use Windows.


Hatha


either that or we all cluster together for 2 years and write the G-S.us-OS.


we could name it K-OS for short ! :)