{"id":11785,"date":"2013-11-18T08:20:02","date_gmt":"2013-11-18T08:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11785"},"modified":"2013-11-18T08:20:02","modified_gmt":"2013-11-18T08:20:02","slug":"linux-admits-nsa-demanded-backdoor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11785","title":{"rendered":"Linux admits NSA demanded backdoor"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11786\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11786\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/linustovalds.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11786\" alt=\"Linus Tovalds\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/linustovalds-300x208.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/linustovalds-300x208.png 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/linustovalds.png 594w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11786\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Linus Torvalds<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking at the keynote LinuxCon panel this year, Linus Torvalds, who created the open-source Linux operating system 22 years ago, revealed that the US government had approached him about installing a backdoor into system\u2019s structure. Linux is the preferred operating system for the privacy conscious infosec community.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It\u2019s just the latest in a string of revelations illustrating how the NSA have for a number of years attempted to intervene in the very structuring of online communications and cryptography to enable easier surveillance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">EWeek.com reported on Torvalds\u2019 panel admission (although the suggestion is that the Linux creator resisted government pressure):<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Torvalds was also asked if he had ever been approached by the U.S. government to insert a backdoor into Linux. Torvalds responded \u201cno\u201d while [nodding] his head \u201cyes,\u201d as the audience broke into spontaneous laughter. &#8211; salon.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking at the keynote LinuxCon panel this year, Linus Torvalds, who created the open-source Linux operating system 22 years ago, revealed that the US government had approached him about installing a backdoor into system\u2019s structure. Linux is the preferred operating system for the privacy conscious infosec community. It\u2019s just the latest in a string of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11785\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Linux admits NSA demanded backdoor&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7444,7442,7443,7440,7441,3355],"class_list":["post-11785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-backdoor","tag-communications","tag-cryptography","tag-linus-torvalds","tag-linux-operating-system","tag-surveillance"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/linustovalds.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11787,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11785\/revisions\/11787"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}