Re:Can Microsoft plant backdoor on Linux source in GitHub se...
by PaulHoule on Wednesday September 19, 2018 @09:26AM
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It's open source.
Everybody would be able to see it. It might be hard to figure out, but you couldn't get away with it forever.
For that matter anybody who contributes to Linux could contribute a bad patch. Remember that a bad patch doesn't have to look like it has evil intent, it just looks like the author wasn't being careful with memory and... oops, there is a buffer overflow there.
Everybody would be able to see it. It might be hard to figure out, but you couldn't get away with it forever.
For that matter anybody who contributes to Linux could contribute a bad patch. Remember that a bad patch doesn't have to look like it has evil intent, it just looks like the author wasn't being careful with memory and... oops, there is a buffer overflow there.