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Possible side-effect: character assassinationPossible side-effect: character assassinationPosted Nov 14, 2003 15:50 UTC (Fri) by Max.Hyre (subscriber, #1054)Parent article: An attempt to backdoor the kernel
No one's mentioned a lucky circumstance of this attempt: that the perpetrator used David Miller's name. Mr. Miller's efforts and integrity are too well known for this to be seen as anything other than a falsification. (Besides, if he wanted to insert a back door, he's got lots more effective ways to do it. :-) But what if it had been labelled as coming from ``Joe Blow'', some rising coder who'd just been given commit permission in the last month or so? Would he be well-known enough to have his protestations of innocence believed? Even if accepted, would not doubt lurk in the minds of many other developers? Debian developers cryptographically sign every upload. It's a precaution should be more widespread.
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