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by cies 1984 days ago
> Most backdoor looking bug

While a backdoor is not a bug but a feature, it helps to disguise a backdoor as a bug (i.e. plausible deniability). I know of one instance (in MS Windows) where the backdoor feature was not even hidden so much:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAKEY

That's why we need opensource. It's a hedge against tyranny.
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ryanlol 1984 days ago
The NSAKEY backdoor claim should be trivial to prove with a debugger, until someone does so I think we can safely dismiss it as a lie.

It’s been two decades, and nobody has been able to explain how it would’ve been used.

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cies 1984 days ago
I beg to differ. This stuff is called reverse engineering and it's all but trivial.
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ryanlol 1984 days ago
The debugging symbols and most of the source is out there, this really isn’t a particularly difficult task.

If you can’t do this, then you certainly aren’t qualified to claim that such a backdoor exists.

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