Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now
On Thu, Jul 03, 2014 at 11:25:36AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
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> If the NSA are going to hide back-doors in open source projects (a rather
> dubious idea to start with, given how difficult it is and how much social
> blowback there would be when such a thing was inevitably discovered), they
> would focus on highly-opaque code that cannot be easily audited except by
> experts. That's why people are very worried about crypto libraries and
> particularly crypto algorithms that involve special magic numbers. That's
> an obvious place to conceal such a thing.
An obvious pick that'd be both opaque and hard-hitting against a
saddening amount of open source systems would be the non-free NVidia
driver. Why would the NSA take even the slightest risk of discovery
when they could put a backdoor in a driver for a piece of hardware that
has full access to your system?
Kind regards, David
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