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by BashiBazouk 4645 days ago
If one were to put on the tinfoil cap to the degree many are on HN with the NSA story, seems to me like the NSA would assign good programmers to contribute quality code with really subtle exploitable flaws to all kinds of open source projects. This brings up a question I have had about open source: how much of it is audited by people skilled enough to notice these kinds of flaws? I expect most major projects are, but what about the incredible numbers of lesser projects?