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If you're trying to hide a backdoor in a more subtle way than leaving a telnet port open, disguising it as a bug is not a bad way to go. Much less work than, sa
by the_biot 5y ago
If you're trying to hide a backdoor in a more subtle way than leaving a telnet port open, disguising it as a bug is not a bad way to go. Much less work than, say, finagling your own magic numbers into a new crypto standard.
Anyway, Telegram MTProto backdoored; this never was a surprise to anyone I guess.
- ghostbrainalpha 5y agoI can see a lot of people doing this for plausible deniability. It would be very difficult to prove the difference between actual incompetence and deliberate ineptitude.