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To: Still Thinking
Paging Linus Torvalds.....

Well, the poster did say friendly, reliable and private.

Reminded me of the response from Torvalds when he was asked if the U.S. government had asked him to put a backdoor in Linux:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gRsgkdfYJ8

I'm not worried about Torvalds himself, but thousands of coders contribute to Linux. It would not be surprising if a few of them worked for the NSA.

16 posted on 04/06/2017 8:13:05 PM PDT by TChad (Propagandists should not be treated like journalists.)
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To: TChad

[[I’m not worried about Torvalds himself, but thousands of coders contribute to Linux.]]

on the flip side, there are enough tech savvy folks out htere that would sound hte alarm to all the linux users and communities if such back door stuff were included


20 posted on 04/06/2017 9:48:43 PM PDT by Bob434
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