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And even Linus talks about the NSA in that same thread a little lower: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/7/30/116 https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/7/30/116
by jspaur 13y ago
And even Linus talks about the NSA in that same thread a little lower: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/7/30/116 https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/7/30/116
- newman314 13y agoAnd the next email where Ted says that the NSA are one of the good guys... Yeah, not so much.
- tptacek 13y agoYou just took T'so's quote totally out of context in order to make a fatuous point. In reality, Torvalds and T'so have a better understanding of software security topics than virtually anyone who comments on HN.
- mpyne 13y agoYeah, how dare the NSA develop SELinux and SHA-1. I suppose I would just be feeding the conspiracy theories if I mentioned that NSA also pushed security work for X.org forward?
- javert 13y agoFor anyone wondering, he literally does not say that. He says if you're in the government they're one of the good guys, if you're anyone else you want to mix the results of their RNG with some other source. Which is apparently exactly what this patch does.