@slash @Moon to rephrase, I'd read sometime ago that RedHat as an institution appeared to be slipping very intelligent backdoors into a lot of Linux code, with US letter agencies implicated, and wondered what the appeal of RedHat is/if there is truth to this narrative
i for sure get the motivation of using older software, tried to get Windows 7 on my new rig but have struggled to find a functional install disc I can trust
@skells @Moon @skells @Moon I can’t think of any instances I know of involving them trying to upstream backdoors, I just remember stories from Snowden leaks indicating that they’d been quietly asked under contract to leave zero days unpatched on systems by letters agencies (in some cases even leaving some of them unpatched internally, presumably to monitor who tried to use the exploits).
There have definitely been a few very suspicious contributions aimed directly at kernel in that past decade though- particularly suggestions from an intel employed contributor that would give hardware a lot more control over RNG and the semi-successful attempt to push Simon and Speck into kernel. https://lwn.net/Articles/761992/
