If they did, it would be unlikely to work well, given any one can inspect the code, and they would be more likely to compel companies that contribute. On 12 July 2013 10:14, GJB <kiwigb(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
Well those are the open branches ... I'm talking about the ones that contribute to open source covertly for their benefit. I don't think they'll be doing that in the open.
On Fri, 2013-07-12 at 09:55 +1200, Peter Reutemann wrote:
How sure are we that NSA doesn't have open source contributors on their payroll as well?
Apache Accumulo is an NSA open source project: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Accumulo
The NSA was the primary original developer of SELinux: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security-Enhanced_Linux
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