Linux Backdoors ?

[backi]

Hi !

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://grizzom.blogspot.de/

http://www.salon.com/2013/09/19/linux_c ... _backdoor/

[Q5sys]

Hi !

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://grizzom.blogspot.de/

http://www.salon.com/2013/09/19/linux_c ... _backdoor/

If you actually watch the session the bit about him 'admitting' it was obviously a joke. After everyone got a good laugh he then responds with a more serious no.

The Media however hungry for clicks is going around saying that the NSA demanded a backdoor - because that will get people to click the links.