• Critical Vulnerability and Privacy LoopHole Found in RoboForm Password Manager

    Unless you are a human supercomputer, remembering password is not so easy, and that too if you have a different password for each site. But luckily...
  • miniLock - Open Source File Encryption Tool from CryptoCat Developer

    It’s the age of surveillance what made the Use of Encryption so widely that it has become a need of law enforcement agencies, cyber criminals as...
  • A BEGINNERS GUIDE TO HACKING UNIX

      *************  *       A BEGINNERS GUIDE TO:        *  *        ...
  • CASH! CASH! Hacking ATM Machines with Just a Text Message

    As we reported earlier, Microsoft will stop supporting the Windows XP operating system after 8th April, apparently 95% of the world’s 3 million...
  • Microsoft Word Zero-Day Vulnerability is being exploited in the Wild

    Microsoft warned about a zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft Word that is being actively exploited in targeted attacks and discovered by the...
  • Snoopy Drone Can Hack Your Smartphones

    The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVS) called Drones is rapidly transforming the way we go to war. Drones were once used for...
  • Android Privilege Escalation Flaws leave Billions of Devices vulnerable to Malware Infection

    Android - a widely used Smartphone platform offered by Google is once again suspected to affect its users with malicious software that puts...
  • Introduction to Netcat

    Introduction : So I was messing around on the internet and came across a tool called Netcat.  I've been messing with it for a couple of...
  • Google Nexus phone vulnerable to SMS-based DOS attack

    Google’s Nexus Smartphones are vulnerable to SMS-based DOS attack, where an attacker can force it to restart, freeze, or lose network...
  • Linux worm targeting Routers, Set-top boxes and Security Cameras with PHP-CGI Vulnerability

    A Symantec researcher has discovered a new Linux worm, targeting machine-to-machine devices, and exploits a PHP vulnerability...

Sunday, 22 September 2013

U.S. Government asked Linus Torvalds to insert Backdoor Into Linux

At the Linuxcon conference in New Orleans today, Linus Torvalds and the other top Linux developers, talked to the Linux faithful about Linux, Microsoft, and other issues.
During a question-and-answer ‪session ‬at ‪the LinuxCon, Linux Torvalds admitted to questions from the audience that the U.S. Government approached him to put a backdoor into his open-source operating system. Torvalds responded "no" while shaking his head "yes," as the audience broke into spontaneous laughter.


Then someone asked if Linus would be interested in becoming Microsoft's CEO, which was answered with a big smile and because he is fully satisfied with the development of Linux and his life.


He noted that when he started Linux 22 years ago, the hardware was very different than it is today. He expects that 20 years from now the hardware will change even more.

"Linux usage keeps changing. Linux today is very different from even ten years ago,” Torvalds added. “I hope it will continue to meet new use cases."

During the session, Torvalds also explained why he became a developer in the first place. He said that when he started, he didn't have money to run Unix on his own machine. He also noted that his friends were playing games on their computers that he couldn't afford, so he had to learn to program. "Necessity made me try to do something," Torvalds said.

No comments:

Post a Comment