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Investigating a rootkit on kernel.org falls squarely within the NSA's counterintelligence mission. Until they investigate, they don't know whether it was done b
by jimrandomh 10y ago
Investigating a rootkit on kernel.org falls squarely within the NSA's counterintelligence mission. Until they investigate, they don't know whether it was done by a random 27 year old doofus or by a nation state.
- tptacek 10y agoThat's the first half of the argument. The second half is why and how the NSA then set the 27 year old up to get searched by the FBI.