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pksadiq on Dec 15, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Yahoo installed a backdoor for the NSA behind the ...

> [Update (12/14/16): Reuters has specified that the rootkit was implemented as a Linux kernel module. Wow.]

Hm.. One more proof to avoid using non-free binary blobs in Linux kernel. Be safe. Use Debian GNU/Linux without non-free repo or any better[0] one.

[0] https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html

_4fwv on Dec 15, 2016 [–]

I don't think this has anything to do with non-free blobs. They knew exactly what it did and they installed it anyway. It wouldn't have mattered if they had the source or the rootkit was open.

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