{"id":186687,"date":"2013-11-17T20:47:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-18T01:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/11\/17\/is-anyone-surprised-that-the-nsa-tried-to-get-backdoors-in-linux\/"},"modified":"2013-11-17T20:47:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-18T01:47:00","slug":"is-anyone-surprised-that-the-nsa-tried-to-get-backdoors-in-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/11\/17\/is-anyone-surprised-that-the-nsa-tried-to-get-backdoors-in-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Anyone Surprised That the NSA Tried to Get Backdoors in Linux?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/2Jrk2.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"250\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/falkvinge.net\/2013\/11\/17\/nsa-asked-linus-torvalds-to-install-backdoors-into-gnulinux\/\">I&#8217;m not surprised<\/a>, given that they have conspired to make security protocols less secure in order to make it easier for the NSA to hack into systems:<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The NSA has asked Linus Torvalds to inject covert backdoors into the free and open operating system GNU\/Linux. This was revealed in this week\u2019s hearing on mass surveillance in the European Parliament. Chalk another one up of the United States NSA trying to make information technology less secure for everyone. <\/p>\n<p>The father of Linus Torvalds, Nils Torvalds, is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.europarl.europa.eu\/meps\/en\/114268\/NILS_TORVALDS_home.html\">Member of the European Parliament<\/a> for Finland. This week, Nils Torvalds took part in the European Parliament\u2019s hearing on the ongoing mass surveillance, and brought a revelation: <\/p>\n<p>The United States security service NSA has contacted Linus Torvalds with a request to add backdoors into the free and open operating system GNU\/Linux. <\/p>\n<p>The entire inquiry is <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/EkpIddQ8m2s\">available here<\/a> on YouTube (uploaded <a href=\"http:\/\/henrikalexandersson.blogspot.se\/2013\/11\/epinquiry-on-mass-surveillance-of-eu.html\">by Hax<\/a>). <\/p>\n<p>Nils Torvalds\u2019 revelation was presented in an episode which started (at <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/EkpIddQ8m2s?t=3h06m58s\">3:06:58<\/a>) by me pointing out to the Microsoft representative in the panel, that in a system like GNU\/Linux, built on open source, you can examine the source code to see that there aren\u2019t any back doors. In Microsoft\u2019s systems, this possibility is absent, since the source code is secret to outsiders.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Backdoors are deliberate security holes in a system, and notwithstanding the <i><b>claims<\/b><\/i> of its proponents, (largely debunked by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/future_tense\/2013\/09\/27\/loveint_how_nsa_spies_snooped_on_girlfriends_lovers_and_first_dates.html\">evidence of abuse<\/a> by NSA personnel) regarding checks and balances, this is just a complete clusterf%$# for American tech.<\/p>\n<p>Any foreign company that does not think twice about working with a US tech firm is deluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not surprised, given that they have conspired to make security protocols less secure in order to make it easier for the NSA to hack into systems: The NSA has asked Linus Torvalds to inject covert backdoors into the free and open operating system GNU\/Linux. This was revealed in this week\u2019s hearing on mass surveillance &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1102,1066,989,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intelligence","category-privacy","category-software","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186687"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}