> if the goal is to produce a version with a backdoor, they don't need the source to accomplish that It certainly would make their job easier (and be a lot che

> if the goal is to produce a version with a backdoor, they don't need the source to accomplish that It certainly would make their job easier (and be a lot cheaper)! > B: if that was the goal, they wouldn't want to give the original author any reason to know they were asking about it, That's a good point - unless they were targeting a specific target.