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Re: Does kernel 2.6 include an NSA backdoor?

____/ Chris Mattern on Wednesday 05 March 2008 16:30 : \____

> On 2008-03-05, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> It might be more complicated than this. They are said to have back doors in
>> *standard protocols* (Linux included) [1,2,3,4] and these are hard to get by
> 
> Linux is not a protocol, standard or otherwise.

A kernel does not make an operating platform complete, either. The question
about 2.4 fallback is irrelevant here, but the argument still stands.

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