Re: Linux Kernel Hacked by NSA/GCHQ

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



Am 31.08.2013 06:42, schrieb agraham:
> On 08/31/2013 01:36 AM, Gordon Messmer wrote:
>> On 08/30/2013 12:35 PM, agraham wrote:
>>>
>>> As you will all remember, a few years ago we kernel.org was hacked, I
>>> cannot remember if that was ever resolved
>>
>> http://www.pcworld.com/article/239400/hack_or_no_hack_the_linux_kernel_is_well_protected.html
>>
> 
> That was actually my concern:
> 
> "Investigations are no doubt continuing on numerous fronts, and Kernel.org is working to make sure that each of its
> 448 users change their passwords and SSH keys."
> 
> The attack could have been specifically designed to cause a loss of trust as it did and the key regeneration that
> then occurred resulting in private keys being exposed via one of 448 users weak points, for future use (and would
> then be much harder to detect because nothing was changed at that time)

and last week as i not locked my workstation while going on toilet
somebody could have installed a keylogger in my user-profile or
even somebody managed it to put in a USB stick with a unknown
exploit

*prove it* or stop FUD like "Linux Kernel Hacked by NSA/GCHQ"
at least stop it on the *Fedora* users list

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature

-- 
users mailing list
users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To unsubscribe or change subscription options:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users
Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
[Index of Archives]     [Older Fedora Users]     [Fedora Announce]     [Fedora Package Announce]     [EPEL Announce]     [EPEL Devel]     [Fedora Magazine]     [Fedora Summer Coding]     [Fedora Laptop]     [Fedora Cloud]     [Fedora Advisory Board]     [Fedora Education]     [Fedora Security]     [Fedora Scitech]     [Fedora Robotics]     [Fedora Infrastructure]     [Fedora Websites]     [Anaconda Devel]     [Fedora Devel Java]     [Fedora Desktop]     [Fedora Fonts]     [Fedora Marketing]     [Fedora Management Tools]     [Fedora Mentors]     [Fedora Package Review]     [Fedora R Devel]     [Fedora PHP Devel]     [Kickstart]     [Fedora Music]     [Fedora Packaging]     [Fedora SELinux]     [Fedora Legal]     [Fedora Kernel]     [Fedora OCaml]     [Coolkey]     [Virtualization Tools]     [ET Management Tools]     [Yum Users]     [Yosemite News]     [Gnome Users]     [KDE Users]     [Fedora Art]     [Fedora Docs]     [Fedora Sparc]     [Libvirt Users]     [Fedora ARM]

  Powered by Linux