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With Linux, Even Rootkits Are Open Source

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“Regardless, every Linux user will now have to be on the
lookout, as the availability of a pre-packaged — and open source
— Linux rootkit means that, in the words of one security
researcher, “the gap between a script kiddie and a hacker just got
a little smaller.””


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