Re: Linux Kernel Hacked by NSA/GCHQ

[Reindl Harald]

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...
> >
>  
>  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