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> Unless you're wearing a heavy tin foil hat and think the coding mistake for Heartbleed was intentional. I guess I can't dissuade you from that train of though
by ht85 10y ago
> Unless you're wearing a heavy tin foil hat and think the coding mistake for Heartbleed was intentional. I guess I can't dissuade you from that train of thought.
Are you addressing me personally? What does that have to do with what I said?
> A backdoor is considered to be deliberate and obfuscated from easy discovery, with the intent to be secret access.
Isn't that the case here?
- brianbarker 10y ago- Not you personally. I have experience with HN comments. Just covering my bases. - No, it's not the case here. Unless you can prove it. There's no evidence it was done intentionally.
- ht85 10y agoWhen I say it was done intentionally, I mean opening an authentication-less was intentional. It could be disguised as an access for their own service and the real purpose be mass surveillance, or it could be a simple mistake in a big codebase, but the "door" is definitely not a bug. Even though nowadays we keep hearing about nefarious backdoors, they used to simply refer to hidden service entrances for software creators, a completely legitimate use.
- linkregister 10y agoIndeed, this is a valid definition of backdoor.