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Is Germany Looking to Put a Backdoor into Arch Linux?

United StatesPublished January 16, 2026

Views 11.5K  |  Likes 858  |  Comments 477
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The German government paid $500,000+, to Arch Linux, to re-write Arch Package Management in Rust. Is Germany hoping to inject backdoors, or other spyware, into Arch using Rust? More from The Lunduke Journal: https://lunduke.com/

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January 16, 2026
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