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NSA Asked Linus Torvalds To Install Backdoors Into GNU/Linux [2013] (falkvinge.net)

submitted 2 months ago by awiteb@lemmy.4rs.nl to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He is lucky he is no a US national... that convo could have gone down differently. People telling US spooks no, don't live long.

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

tbf the article only assumes he told them no because of how implausible it seems the task would be, the actual details of what if anything was discussed and what happened are unknown.