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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 2003-11-08
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"no different from the buffer overflows that wind up in Microsoft products on a routine basis."

hahahaah, of course !

i never heard that the Microsoft (M$ for the specials persons among us) source tree get backdoored (exept for that nsa key stories years ago).

and if you do the math, you wi...

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