> The US government then would be embarrassed and would want to cover up any issues related to it, including the fact that it was taken over by someone else! I

> The US government then would be embarrassed and would want to cover up any issues related to it, including the fact that it was taken over by someone else! I feel more like, there’s a chance that by modifying an intentional backdoor it could be that it would go unnoticed because anyone at the NSA looking at it may skip over reviewing closely the part of the code that has the known backdoor in it.