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At the end of the day, backdoors in the open-source software projects will be caught sooner or later, the problem are backdoors in closed source projects ala NS

At the end of the day, backdoors in the open-source software projects will be caught sooner or later, the problem are backdoors in closed source projects ala NSA backdoors. To this day, I'm not completely sure if my Windows machine is secure or not. I remember Gates once said that governments in the early days of Windows demanded from Microsoft to show them the source code of Windows but even that is not enough since Microsoft can hotpatch whatever they want in their machines.

shrubble 3y ago
Microsoft was the very first to cooperate with the PRISM program...see the 2nd image here https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants-nsa-data https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants...
- seniorThrowaway 3y ago
  Of course MS wants to stay in the good graces of its biggest customer
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