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Beijing won’t receive client data or “back doors” into the technology, International Business Machines Corp. said Friday in a statement. I assume this means t
by AdmiralAsshat 11y ago
Beijing won’t receive client data or “back doors” into the technology, International Business Machines Corp. said Friday in a statement.
I assume this means that IBM won't specially code backdoors into the software for the Chinese government to use, but I initially read that sentence to mean that there are backdoors in the software, but IBM won't show them to China. Which kinda defeats the purpose of letting them see the source code.
- pjc50 11y agoIt increases the effort required; if you can make the binary line up with 99% of the source code, the remaining 1% is where the back door is. It's unlikely to have entirely reproducible builds, but simply making the callgraphs line up will give you a lot of information.