[dmoney]

But if there is a back door, doesn't releasing it as open source open the possibility that China's or Iran's equivalent of the NSA will audit the code and find it too?

[zedshaw]

That's why they should stop doing that. We aren't the smartest country on the planet anymore.

[pipeline_tux]

In which case the NSA say "Oops, it was a genuine mistake. Sorry." With 200,000 lines of code, there will almost certainly be unintentional security holes that haven't been found.