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@danielfgom @cygnus fedora is as independent of red hat as Linux mint is independent of canonical. At least as far as I know
Allegedly but most of the Devs are full time Redhat employees.....so you know.
@danielfgom ah I see well either way even if fedora put a backdoor in it wouldnt exactly be a secret. maybe a compromised iso from their main website but people would quickly raise the alarm over the hashes
The only back door that could exist is SELinux, the NSA created security suite.
But even if there is no backdoor, the fact that the government agencies are Red hat's biggest clients is very worrying.