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No doubt, but why limit it to a single distro family when you can backdoor the kernel or a package 90% of people use?
Not just the NSA, that kind of reach is accessible to a lot more governments! I’m pretty sure I read a story about that exact tactic earlier this year that looked like it was coming from China. Maybe no way to know for sure who’s actually behind it, but I would expect any government that has interests in spying on other nations is trying to play that game.
It was almost catastrophic.
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