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by waterhouse 2112 days ago
Theoretically, one person who's reviewing a pull request could notice a flaw and decide to say nothing about it, hoping to exploit it later. That would be less risky than introducing the flaw themselves—although it does require lying in wait for the opportunity and could take arbitrarily long. But if person A introduces the flaw by mistake, and person B sees the opportunity...