, 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.
Anonymous
All it would have taken would be a few people running compromised linux machines behind a firewall, and a competent firewall admin who actually reads logs...
Clever technique, granted. But it wouldn't have gotten far....
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