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by EgoIncarnate 3090 days ago
The same effect of a backdoor could be accomplished with a buffer overflow, and at least that would have the plausible deniability of a bug.

It's either the result an incompetent "secret backdoor" developer, or just plain incompetent development. Either way it's incompetent.

If it makes you feel any better, I acknowledge the spies / hackers / whatever will take advantage of it regardless of it's intent. :-)