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by monocasa 2640 days ago
So now every bug on a privilege boundary is a backdoor, because of "plausible deniability"?
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Did I say that? The point is that it just because it looks like an "honest mistake" doesn't mean it is. If you were to create a backdoor, that's exactly how you'd want to do it.

Given the circumstances, one might wish to err on the side of caution.