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I feel like they'd just apply the software through their partners, then when anyone complains the partner agency will make a reasonable sounding argument about
by true_religion 10y ago
I feel like they'd just apply the software through their partners, then when anyone complains the partner agency will make a reasonable sounding argument about how whatever they're doing is legal because of some separation between the GPL code and the blackbox code.
It will either then be decided invalid in court much later---in which case the CIA has plenty of time to do whatever it is they wanted to do. Or the existing incestuous relationship between the government and the private company will ensure that this remains a grey area of law for a long long time.
- eeZah7Ux 10y agojeffmcjunkin point still stands. In a world of open software and maybe even open hardware, where tivoization and other tricks are prevented, planting backdoors and ensuring they stay undetected becomes very difficult. More so if software is build reproducibly, signed, and so on.