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OFF-TOPIC why is that when I hit back in Ars it creates about 10 pages in my history (didn't click anything in the page itself) this is an UX nightmare and the 3-4 articles I've looked in the past week made me cringe when trying to leave the page.
So let's speculate about what the article almost-but-doesn't-quite propose: The NSA, or related parties, was responsible for the breach. There was an investigation and postmortem, but because of an NSL or other gag-type order, they couldn't accurately publish what they discovered. So they figured that not releasing a report was better than releasing a report that either intentionally misled or pretended not to have f…
What are the ramifications if this is what happened? I strongly suspect they were able to get a copy of the kernel source code... They could be doing anything with it.. Porting it to a new platform.. Compiling it with unsafe GCC flags.. Or worse..
So let's speculate about what the article almost-but-doesn't-quite propose: The NSA, or related parties, was responsible for the breach. There was an investigation and postmortem, but because of an NSL or other gag-type order, they couldn't accurately publish what they discovered. So they figured that not releasing a report was better than releasing a report that either intentionally misled or pretended not to have f…
What are the ramifications if this is what happened? I strongly suspect they were able to get a copy of the kernel source code... They could be doing anything with it.. Porting it to a new platform.. Compiling it with unsafe GCC flags.. Or worse..
So let's speculate about what the article almost-but-doesn't-quite propose: The NSA, or related parties, was responsible for the breach. There was an investigation and postmortem, but because of an NSL or other gag-type order, they couldn't accurately publish what they discovered. So they figured that not releasing a report was better than releasing a report that either intentionally misled or pretended not to have f…
What are the ramifications if this is what happened? I strongly suspect they were able to get a copy of the kernel source code... They could be doing anything with it.. Porting it to a new platform.. Compiling it with unsafe GCC flags.. Or worse..
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What are the ramifications if this is what happened? I strongly suspect they were able to get a copy of the kernel source code... They could be doing anything with it.. Porting it to a new platform.. Compiling it with unsafe GCC flags.. Or worse..
There was a discussion about this recently saying that it was highly unlikely. All the source was in Git and every git commit references the previous commit, making it highly challenging to modify an old commit without also modifying the commit id. More details: http://archive.is/Khq7R
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What are the ramifications if this is what happened? I strongly suspect they were able to get a copy of the kernel source code... They could be doing anything with it.. Porting it to a new platform.. Compiling it with unsafe GCC flags.. Or worse..
There was a discussion about this recently saying that it was highly unlikely. All the source was in Git and every git commit references the previous commit, making it highly challenging to modify an old commit without also modifying the commit id. More details: http://archive.is/Khq7R
Earlier quoted context omitted.
What are the ramifications if this is what happened? I strongly suspect they were able to get a copy of the kernel source code... They could be doing anything with it.. Porting it to a new platform.. Compiling it with unsafe GCC flags.. Or worse..
There was a discussion about this recently saying that it was highly unlikely. All the source was in Git and every git commit references the previous commit, making it highly challenging to modify an old commit without also modifying the commit id. More details: http://archive.is/Khq7R
Promises on important matters are made every day and subsequently broken. Any reason why Ars is bringing this up now?
Until there is a post-mortem, we have to assume the simplest explanation: gross facepalm, like leaving something 777 open to the world.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
What are the ramifications if this is what happened? I strongly suspect they were able to get a copy of the kernel source code... They could be doing anything with it.. Porting it to a new platform.. Compiling it with unsafe GCC flags.. Or worse..
This reminds me of a friend's response to the idea that the TouchID in the new iphone could be a way for the NSA to get your fingerprints: "Just imagine the shitstorm if they put a camera in there. Or a microphone."