Thwarted Linux backdoor hints at smarter hacks

Thwarted Linux backdoor hints at smarter hacks
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2003-11-06

Software developers on Wednesday detected and thwarted a hacker's scheme to submerge a slick backdoor in the next version of the Linux kernel, but security experts say the abortive caper proves that extremely subtle source code tampering is more than just the stuff of paranoid speculation.

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Interesting that it almost became production code. Even the paranoid would be compromised if the CHECSKSUM included the backdoor.

I.E., what someone else wrote about the GNU Server being compromissed.

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