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[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)
  • Decades of anticompetitive monopolistic practices
  • US government backdoors
  • Spyware
  • a price tag
[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works -2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It’s been confirmed before the US government puts backdoors Linux too. I seem to recall a sudo exploit they were found to have intentionally put in years ago.

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

With Linux, you can see all the code. So, if you know about government backdoors in Linux, you should point them out so that people can fix them.

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

Yes and that why it was eventually found but it took years. Hell, the Linux community almost missed the XZ backdoor. But your implication was that backdoors don’t exist in Linux and that’s just not true.