An attempt to backdoor the kernel

Posted Nov 6, 2003 23:02 UTC (Thu) by tjc (guest, #137)
In reply to: An attempt to backdoor the kernel by allesfresser
Parent article: An attempt to backdoor the kernel

...is it outside the realm of possibility that the code was inserted (or attempted to be inserted) specifically to denigrate the reputation of Free software?

Hmm, I wonder if this particular bit of code would have violated any SCO copyrights if it had remained in the kernel undetected. ;-)