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I dont know what you mean by that. Do you mean that the NSA would leave a bug in accidentally? Or intentionally?

Accidentally is definitely plausible, they are only human after all.

Intentionally would be incredibly stupid. The offensive side of the NSA spends billions developing malware that can't be easily found and attributed to them. Inserting one of those malwares into a piece of software they have publically claimed ownership off completely defeats the point. If they wanted to backdoor an open source software, why wouldn't they do it anonymously...

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  • [–] 4 points 41 minutes ago (2 children)

    Ghidra is used by the best and brightest malware inspectors. If it was backdoored, it would have been discovered almost immediately.

    The NSA has two conflicting missions, one is to hack everyone, and the other is to protect American networks and interests. Ghidra is from the later, its goal was to make malware analysis cheap and accessible so that more people can investigate and defeat malware.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 hours ago (9 children)

    Linux is a spectrum, from super hard to very easy. Sounds like you hit a not-easy one.

    If you want an easy time, stick with the major distros (Fedora, Ubuntu, etc), and avoid any complex setups. Use that for a while to get familiarity, and then build up from there.

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    On the AI for fixing up non-native text, I would 100% prefer that people write in their native language or broken English and leave the translation to me. Even the slightest wiff of LLMisms are enough to completely turn me off. Just dont do it.

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