The Linux Backdoor Attempt of 2003

Freedom to Tinker 2013-10-09

Summary:

Josh wrote recently about a serious security bug that appeared in Debian Linux back in 2006, and whether it was really a back door inserted by the NSA. (He concluded that it probably was not.) Today I want to write about another incident, in 2003, in which someone tried to backdoor the Linux kernel. This [...]

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Tags:

linux history security backdoor

Authors:

Ed Felten

Date tagged:

10/09/2013, 10:50

Date published:

10/09/2013, 07:24