Linus Torvalds Admits He's Been Asked To Insert Backdoor Into Linux

darthcamaro writes "At the Linuxcon conference in New Orleans today, Linus Torvalds joined fellow kernel developers in answering a barrage of questions about Linux development. One question he was asked was whether a government agency had ever asked about inserting a back-door into Linux. Torvalds responded 'no' while shaking his head 'yes,' as the audience broke into spontaneous laughter. Torvalds also admitted that while he as a full life outside of Linux he couldn't imagine his life without it. 'I don't see any project coming along being more interesting to me than Linux,' Torvalds said. 'I couldn't imagine filling the void in my life if I didn't have Linux.'"

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Re:Would probably be found

[Anonymous Coward]

You don't even need to have something to hide; you just need to anger the wrong people at the wrong time. What the government thinks is 'bad' is not necessarily what you think is 'bad,' so you're always in danger, no matter how unimportant you believe yourself to be.

Just ask Eliot Spitzer about this.

A Democrat governor that went after Wall Street, who got taken down by a Republican attorney general.