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betzalelmaggid Aug 18, 2018 #4
@Maelstrom - the thing is, apparently the OpenSSH package had a NSA backdoor in it that went unchecked for quite some time. this was and obfuscated hack that used system checks and wait cycles for the hack to be hidden in. it was eventually found, but not until it was already running in major production systems - some of which can take 6 months to a year to patch depending on the method that a companies PROD team uses for patch cycles. i know it may sound a little paranoid, but then again, we all said that people who thought the NSA /CIA was listening in on their phone calls and thought their computer monitors were crazy, and look what happened #EdwardSnoden. I know that the NSA has a direct feed to the fiberoptic backbone and they scan all communications through the traffic, but still having something like that sitting in my server in my own home, i don't really like that.
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