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I'm not proving anything, I'm assuming, and I think it's a reasonable assumption. My argument is that I don't need proof, so I won't even bother providing it. Based on what I've seen, I can be highly confident there exists backdoors in the Linux Kernel without explicitly having to find those backdoors.

For the same reason, I can be highly confident there is at least one person stealing office supplies at Amazon. And I can be highly confident there are some examples of data theft in automobiles. I just use the same principles as above.

> I don't agree.

Okay. How?

The vast majority of Kernel developers are from the West and live in the West. The kernel was created in the West. Management is in the West. And the majority of large tech companies are Western, so probably the majority of Kernel users are also in the West.

Therefore, the West has a majority control over the kernel, and they have a huge incentive to "protect" it to how they define that. That's that, and we can tell this is the case because it wasn't Russia banning western devs from kernel development, was it?

Also: on the topic of chaos, this is why the "motivation" bullet point exists. If there's no motivation, I can't be sure, due to chaos. Chaos means even things that should happen may not. Motivation, particularly of the financial variety, cuts through the chaos of humanity. I am very confident in asserting that and I think pretty much all of history supports that.