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The Linux Backdoor Attempt of 2003
Josh wrote recently about a serious security bug that appeared in Debian Linux back in 2006, and whether it was really a backdoor inserted by the NSA. (He concluded that it probably was not.) Today I want to write about another incident, in 2003, in which someone tried to backdoor the Linux kernel. This one […]
- Points
- 159
- HN comments
- 63
- Submissions
- 1
- Cited by
- 4 commenters
Security & PrivacyHistory & Retro Computing2013
On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 9, 2013 | The Linux Backdoor Attempt of 2003 by Tsiolkovsky | 159 | 63 |
Cited in comments
Linked from 4 Hacker News comments by 4 different people, from Dec 2013 to Jun 2016.
Most recent:
- moyix · Jun 6, 2016
- TacticalCoder · Apr 22, 2014
- clukic · Feb 22, 2014
- chris_wot · Dec 22, 2013
