• schmidtsterdeleted by creator
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    Or they just haven’t been caught yet.

    It would be naive to think it’s a singular event.

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      Certainly not singular, but it’s very difficult to get away with this undetected because the end user gets physical access to the hardware.

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        Linux is open source, and they had a malware for 10 years that was undetected.

        Having access means nothing if you don’t know what you’re looking for. Rootkits are serious problems.

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            Which one? There was the 2020 one by winnti group that attacked Linux servers for a decade, and another in 2021/22 called symbiote, but I don’t know how long that one was hidden for.