• hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 months ago

    The story does not tell us how Linus Torvalds responded to the NSA, but I’m guessing he told them he wouldn’t be able to inject backdoors even if he wanted to, since the source code is open, and all changes to it are reviewed by many independent people.

    Yeah I’m guessing the answer would be more colorful based on the historical data we have