Thursday, 19. September 2013
Topic: SECURITY - on September 19, 2013 at 2:42:00 PM CEST
So, Linus Torvalds: Did US spooks demand a backdoor in Linux? 'Yes'
Linux supremo Linus Torvalds jokingly admitted US spooks approached him to put a backdoor into his open-source operating system.
During a question-and-answer session at the LinuxCon gathering in New Orleans this week, Torvalds and his fellow kernel programmers were asked by moderator Ric Wheeler whether America's g-men leaned on the Finn to compromise Linux's security, allowing spies to infiltrate computers.
Torvalds replied with a firm "no" while nodding his head to say yes, a response greeted with laughter from the audience. He quickly followed up by repeating "no" while shaking his head in the negative.
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