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This is just wrong. Apple's public position could differ from its actual one. And Hiding a backdoor (or hiding with the deniability of an innocent bug) in open
by Sporktacular 3y ago
This is just wrong. Apple's public position could differ from its actual one. And Hiding a backdoor (or hiding with the deniability of an innocent bug) in open source is possible. "we'd definitely know about it" is not how security works.
- RIMR 3y agoThere have been exhaustive third party reviews of the Linux kernel, nothing is impossible, but a government backdoor would be extremely hard to hide from the level of scrutiny that codebase is put under. I would certainly consider it unlikely enough that any suggestion to the contrary, without evidence, is just a conspiracy theory.
- Try1275 3y agoCould there be a backdoor on the hardware level?
- RIMR 3y agoI mean, yes, as we have already agreed, anything is possible, but I'm not in the business of believing things without evidence.
- Sporktacular 3y ago"we'd definitely know about it". Yes, but extremely hard is not the same as impossible. How many security 'bugs' can we be sure were unintentional? This is not just semantics. Complacency can come from over-confidence.