New Technology : Has The US Government Infiltrated The Debian Project? (No)

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Debian is one of the most popular Linux distributions. It’s solid, dependable, and compared to Arch and Gentoo, relatively easy for newcomers to grasp. Ubuntu is built upon it, and it’s often used to power the Raspberry Pi. It’s also alleged to be in the grasp of America’s intelligence apparatus, according to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. Or is it? Speaking at the 2014’s World Hosting Days conference, Julian Assange described how certain nation states (naming no names, cough America cough) have intentionally made certain Linux distributions insecure, in order to bring them under the control of their surveillance dragnet. You...

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