@awiteb@lemmy.4rs.nl to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish • 1 month agoNSA Asked Linus Torvalds To Install Backdoors Into GNU/Linux [2013]falkvinge.netexternal-linkmessage-square63fedilinkarrow-up1560arrow-down14file-text
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minus-squaresunzu2linkfedilink10•1 month agoHe is lucky he is no a US national… that convo could have gone down differently. People telling US spooks no, don’t live long.
minus-square@chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilink4•edit-21 month agotbf the article only assumes he told them no because of how implausible it seems the task would be, the actual details of what if anything was discussed and what happened are unknown.
He is lucky he is no a US national… that convo could have gone down differently. People telling US spooks no, don’t live long.
tbf the article only assumes he told them no because of how implausible it seems the task would be, the actual details of what if anything was discussed and what happened are unknown.