@hipsterelectron do u think linus knows that most kernel mantainers are being paid to get backdoors in there or is he just blissfully unaware
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@fiore linus signed off on the (VERY OBVIOUS) backdoor in ML-DSA module signature verification back in march. while david howells (the red hat guy who did it) was obfuscating the changes made to his linux-fs branch from the general public by swamping the crypto/ changes in massive LLM-addled bullshit in the ceph filesystem, linus reviewed the change individually, and accepted it into his tree, while retaining the backdating that howells applied to foil git log traversal by date.
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every single thing linus accepts into his tree goes through the review board system at kernel dot org e.g. https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=b6ee92d7f7f0498d1f776d0b125a2f6bcedf0891 there were stamps of approval from the entire linux crypto team collectively on the whole series of backdoors in crypto/ that went in during the 7.0 rc cycle (no individuals signed off on the changes except david howells, it was just a stamp of approval applied collectively which implicated the entire system in an instant)
