> It's painfully obvious nowadays that openssl was written by the NSA The problem is that your lack of context and perspective on this fairly simple, easily-fa

> It's painfully obvious nowadays that openssl was written by the NSA The problem is that your lack of context and perspective on this fairly simple, easily-falsified theory calls all of your opinions into question. A more nuanced conspiracy theorist would say "if you look at PR's to openssl that contributed later-discovered security issues, 70% were from first-time contributors who never went on to submit any other PR's". And I'd be like "wow, that's suggestive of a coordinated action", and we could dig into it. But "the NSA wrote openssl" is as factually, demonstrably wrong as saying "the NSA builds every door lock that's for sale at Home Depot". It's too big of a conspiracy, to inefficient for the supposed state goals, and too easy to falsify by just looking at a couple of examples.