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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 2003-11-11
Anonymous
If something like this did manage to get into the production code for something as large as the linux kernel, we might have seen a huge breakdown in the faith of GNU and linux. Especially if a number of high level servers were compromised, while thousands of CC #'s flooding out onto the internet.

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