On Tue, 16 May 2006 06:24:38 PDT, Marc Perkel said: > So what about Linux? With thousands of people working on the Kernel if > someone from the NSA wanted to slip a back door into the Kernel, could > the do that? Actually, if the NSA wanted to slip in a back door, they'd have done so in the SELinux code. :) As others have mentioned, the kernel code isn't the best place to try to put a back door in, precisely because of the depth of scrutiny. A much more likely avenue is to backdoor some popular userspace code (as did happen to Sendmail and OpenSSH within a few weeks of each other a few years ago). And then there's the Underhanded C Code contest: http://www.brainhz.com/underhanded/ :)
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