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> infiltrating popular open source projects

As PHK pointed out, the NSA (and other large SIGINT agencies) obviously already have some amount of influence on popular free and open source software.

If anybody find this at all surprising, watch PHK's "Operation Orchestra"[1] asap.

[1] https://archive.fosdem.org/2014/schedule/event/nsa_operation...




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