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When my oldest son [Linus Torvalds] was asked the same question: "Has he been approached by the NSA about backdoors?" he said "No", but at the same time he nodded. Then he was sort of in the legal free. He had given the right answer, [but] everybody understood that the NSA had approached him.

— Nils Torvalds, LIBE Committee Inquiry on Electronic Mass Surveillance of EU Citizens [25] [ dead link ‍] - 11th Hearing, 11 November 2013 [26]

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  26. ↑ Video, programme, archived programme.
  27. ↑ Advisory Board Reimagine Europa.
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