Editing Nils Torvalds (section)

==Linux kernel statement==
Nils' son [[Linus Torvalds]], the creator of the [[Linux kernel]], joked during a LinuxCon keynote on 18 September 2013 that the [[National Security Agency]], the creators of [[SELinux]], wanted a backdoor in the kernel.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kerner |first=Sean Michael |date=2013-09-19 |title=Linus Torvalds Talks Linux Development at LinuxCon |url=https://www.eweek.com/developer/linus-torvalds-talks-linux-development-at-linuxcon.html |access-date=2022-03-24 |website=www.eweek.com |publisher=Quinstreet Enterprise |language=en-GB |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130919202814/http://www.eweek.com/developer/linus-torvalds-talks-linux-development-at-linuxcon.html |archive-date=2013-09-19 |url-status=dead}}</ref> However, later, Linus's father revealed that the NSA had actually asked for the installation of backdoors in Linux.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://falkvinge.net/2013/11/17/nsa-asked-linus-torvalds-to-install-backdoors-into-gnulinux/|title=NSA Asked Linus Torvalds To Install Backdoors Into GNU / Linux|first=Christian|last=Engström|date=2013-11-17|access-date=2015-11-08|website=falkvinge.net |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240815202920/http://falkvinge.net/2013/11/17/nsa-asked-linus-torvalds-to-install-backdoors-into-gnulinux/ |archive-date=2024-08-15 |url-status=live}}</ref>
{{quote|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|[[European Parliament Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs|LIBE]] Committee Inquiry on Electronic Mass Surveillance of EU Citizens<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.europarl.europa.eu/parlArchives/comArch/com7/hearingsSheet.do?language=EN&body=LIBE|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150520072114/http://www.europarl.europa.eu/parlArchives/comArch/com7/hearingsSheet.do?language=EN&body=LIBE|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 20, 2015|title=Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, Hearings|date=2014-07-01}}</ref> - 11th Hearing, 11 November 2013<ref>[http://www.europarl.europa.eu/ep-live/en/committees/video?event=20131114-1500-COMMITTEE-LIBE Video], [http://www.europarl.europa.eu/document/activities/cont/201311/20131107ATT74112/20131107ATT74112EN.pdf programme], [https://web.archive.org/web/20190904235740/https://www.europarl.europa.eu/document/activities/cont/201311/20131107ATT74112/20131107ATT74112EN.pdf archived programme].</ref>}}