, 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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Thwarted Linux backdoor hints at smarter hacks
2003-11-11
Cid Skid the Former Script K1d (3 replies)
Cid Skid the Former Script K1d (3 replies)
Dunno... with open source, there are too many eyeballs on the source for it to have remained hidden for too awful long. Given the internal checks already present, plus the proposed (and widely approved of) addition of GPG signatures for new source submissions, it'll get just that much harder for someone to slip something in, at least under the pretense of being someone else.
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