On Sat, Mar 01, 2014 at 11:53:28PM -0600, y...@marupa.net wrote: > > > On Sun, 2014-03-02 at 10:55 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > > And then there's NSA (and the companies they outsource to) - they *do* > > have an agenda that would be furthered by creating divisions and > > uncertainty in Debian. They've made large investments in software hooked > > to the existing init system - and while they'll have to retool to use > > systemd it doesn't mean they have the same access required to replace > > existing malware installations, additionally they would probably enjoy > > seeing less people use Debian. > > > > The trouble is, how effectively can the NSA hook itself into open source > software? How easily could they get backdoors into something without upstream > noticing? Might be effective getting hooks into something downstream, but I > don't see the NSA getting anything into something upstream without someone > noticing, since patches are generally reviewed before integration. > > To sum up my thought on that, the NSA needs cooperation from someone OUTSIDE > the NSA to get their hooks in.
What! You mean that they want someone to "act" like Edward Snowdon? -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140302062128.GA19372@tal
