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A comment on The Linux Backdoor Attempt of 2003.

Re:The Linux Backdoor Attempt of 2003 by lawnchair_larry on Wednesday October 09, 2013 @04:12PM (#6523530)
There was no shortage of non-proft, non-nation-state actors engaging in backdooring open source and commercial codebases during this time. No reason to believe this was related to the NSA.
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Re:The Linux Backdoor Attempt of 2003 by luckydude on Wednesday October 09, 2013 @07:53PM (#6524742)
I agree, I've worked with the NSA (early 1990's when they still had some ethics) and this hack doesn't feel like what they would do.

I'm not an NSA expert though, I declined to get clearance, so salt my opinion a bit.

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