Re: Wiretapping Linux?

From: Måns Rullgård
Date: Tue May 16 2006 - 16:29:51 EST


Chase Venters <chase.venters@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> The thing is that there is enough peer review in the open source world
> that not only would it be *difficult* to slip in some intentionally
> malicious code (and I don't think any malicious code of much potential
> would be likely to make it past LKML, especially if it doesn't closely
> adhere to CodingStyle :P) but it would not be long before someone
> noticed it.

Some details on a real attempt: http://kerneltrap.org/node/1584

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Måns Rullgård
mru@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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