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> Most backdoor looking bug While a backdoor is not a bug but a feature, it helps to disguise a backdoor as a bug (i.e. plausible deniability). I know of one i
by cies 6y ago
> Most backdoor looking bug
While a backdoor is not a bug but a feature, it helps to disguise a backdoor as a bug (i.e. plausible deniability). I know of one instance (in MS Windows) where the backdoor feature was not even hidden so much:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAKEY https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAKEY
That's why we need opensource. It's a hedge against tyranny.
- ryanlol 6y agoThe NSAKEY backdoor claim should be trivial to prove with a debugger, until someone does so I think we can safely dismiss it as a lie. It’s been two decades, and nobody has been able to explain how it would’ve been used.
- cies 6y agoI beg to differ. This stuff is called reverse engineering and it's all but trivial.
- ryanlol 6y agoThe debugging symbols and most of the source is out there, this really isn’t a particularly difficult task. If you can’t do this, then you certainly aren’t qualified to claim that such a backdoor exists.