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Friendly reminder that SELinux was developed by the NSA, and is now part of Linux. So clearly the open source community doesn't care too much about who created
by ikeboy 11y ago
Friendly reminder that SELinux was developed by the NSA, and is now part of Linux. So clearly the open source community doesn't care too much about who created a piece of code.
Case study 2: bitcoin.
- andreyf 11y agoAlso, Tor is not designed to be resistant against traffic analysis by a global passive adversary. That isn't the kind of evidence that can be used in a US court, but intelligence agencies aren't primarily interested in bringing cases in front of courts, anyway.
- olefoo 11y agoAlthough there has been more than a little evidence of "Parallel Construction" happening where the aforementioned global passive adversary pushes a treasure map to the local law enforcement agencies with indicators as to where to look...
- grubles 11y agoCase study 1: the US Department of Defense created ARPANET, the first network to implement TCP/IP.
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- ikeboy 11y agoI think for that, in particular, there's a very strong argument to be made that any backdoors would have been discovered by now.