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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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Thwarted Linux backdoor hints at smarter hacks 2003-11-07
Anonymous
This is an example of a good one?

This isnt very new, though the technique is neat to see implimented this same type of thing has been done and discovered before. Doesnt seem too complex to me at all, but I guess if blue boar is excited about it it must be cool....

-IBtheM

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