So to hide a backdoor in a opensource software it's the best solution to tell the world that you (the NSA) is actively working on a Project? Like SELinux? Man do you think they are stupid? They work on those projects to make their own infrastructure more secure, don't you think every one looks on their fingers/commits?
>You should also consider as a swiss citizen that US law is increasingly world law
That's Bullshit, was probably half true in the Cold War era but for sure not today.
> They're doing that to Assange right now.
That's England, you know those little dogs of yours.
Per the links above, they didn't tell anyone, Snowden outed them.
In the cold War it was true of the western world and the USs use was limited because the US wanted to look gentle and reasonable. Today it's true for most of the planet and the US wants to look tough.
If you don't like the Assange case (I agree the brits are lap dogs, but that case actually got kicked off in Sweden and was handled under EU law much more aggressively than the in UK), try the FIFA case. The US ordered Switzerland to arrest and extradite foreign nationals, many had never set foot in the US for trial, Switzerland obeyed...
I don't like any of this. But it's time to abandon our innocence. If you're working on any meaningful project in encryption, the NSA are at least aware of you. The US are happy to use covert methods to undermine you if they think its worth it (and the bar is low). If you're important enough (or a DA wants to expense some flights) they'll use overt methods. Proceed at your own risk and don't assume that America banning encryption doesn't make it illegal for you just because you're a Swiss citizen in Switzerland.
>Proceed at your own risk and don't assume that America banning encryption doesn't make it illegal for you just because you're a Swiss citizen in Switzerland
Yeah i stop here...
BTW from your first article about android:
>So, if it’s not looking to plant backdoors, what’s the NSA’s business with Android? Ironically, the agency has been working to make Android more secure.
AND
>It is just as preposterous to think that the best way to gain access to any operating system is to publicly announce that you are contributing to the OS, and make the tainted code accessible to anyone with an interest in it.
So it was NOT Snowden, but NSA itself.
Second Article about Coreboot:
>Myers published a paper about STM last year on how NSA’s STM implementation could work. All Coreboot code, including all the STM contributions from the NSA, are open source, so anyone could verify that there is no backdoor in there -- in theory.
>You should also consider as a swiss citizen that US law is increasingly world law
That's Bullshit, was probably half true in the Cold War era but for sure not today.
> They're doing that to Assange right now.
That's England, you know those little dogs of yours.