One attempt thwarted

One attempt thwarted

Posted Nov 6, 2003 20:51 UTC (Thu) by proski (subscriber, #104)
In reply to: One attempt thwarted by ncm
Parent article: An attempt to backdoor the kernel

We should consider the political significance of free software as well as its economical significance. It's possible that the attack aimed to create bad publicity for Free Software rather than to exploit the backdoor.

Collaborative development is specific for free software. We cannot say that similar can happen for non-free software, usually developed behind corporate firewall. That's why this attack could have been used for FUD very effectively, were it to succeed.

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