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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
This is just a 'scare' article to get people paranoid. A bug in the code - wow that's a new one. Oh it sounds better if there is a sinister plot that someone mysteriously planted this code. Are you telling me they couldn't have fixed or patched this problem even if it had been released - even if had...

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