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Old 01-23-2014, 11:32 PM   #1
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LXer: Is Red Hat Working for the NSA?


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On Friday, Roy Schestowitz posted an article on Techrights which seems to accuse Red Hat of being in cahoots with the NSA. According to the article, the company has been building back doors into RHEL for the spy agency. However, the article appears to be long on accusations and short on proof.

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Old 01-24-2014, 11:15 AM   #2
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I see no reason to believe that Red Hat is working for the NSA ... other than this really paranoid guy who wrote this article.

It's true that it is possible, especially since they do distribute binaries. However, I don't see any reason to believe that they have been infiltrated or backdoors inserted. If you really wanna prove it, compile everything yourself from Red Hat or CentOS sources and see if the binaries match. If they don't, keep investigating.
 
  


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