Reply to post: Re: Place your bets...

University duo thought it would be cool to sneak bad code into Linux as an experiment. Of course, it absolutely backfired

Peter2 Silver badge

Re: Place your bets...

No state actor is likely to admit executing a concerted supply chain attack on the Linux Kernal. Even if they did pull something off then it'd probably look the Heartbleed bug in OpenSSL; it is certainly not going to be submitted by bugInsertAttempt@nsa.gov

I mean, you do realise that these are entities that produce perfectly plausible covers for people when they want them, complete with totally legitimate credit cards, passports etc as a matter of course? No online only community has a hope of totally preventing infiltration by government because all of a sudden with nation state level resources things in the security landscape that you thought were certainties may become uncertain without warning.

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