Comment by aucisson_masque
1 month ago
> If a sufficiently motivated, unscrupulous person can put themselves into a trusted position of updating critical software, there’s honestly little that can be done to stop them,” says White, the security researcher.
That says a lot about Linux kernel safety.
thats literally like 90% of anything. This is open source, code maintained in large swaths by volunteers. Obviously there is not extensive background checks that are being done, the amount of resources that would require is not something the Linux Foundation probably has.