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My assumption is that this was state sponsored mass surveillance campaign of some kind but God knows what exactly they were looking for. I think if backdoor wa
by mrkramer 3y ago
My assumption is that this was state sponsored mass surveillance campaign of some kind but God knows what exactly they were looking for.
I think if backdoor was discovered 2 or 3 months later, we maybe could understand better what they wanted to do. My speculation is that they wanted to build a massive botnet and then snoop on machines' processes and traffic looking for something. It's hard to speculate because luckily they were captured soon enough.
- swed420 3y agoI find it intriguing that out of all the speculative comment threads I've read so far, none of them have suggested it was Microsoft attempting to make FOSS look bad/vulnerable.
- beardedwizard 3y agoHow would that benefit Microsoft, who owns GitHub, the home of OSS? It's not a secret that oss is vulnerable, the opportunity for MS is to sell the solution to a captive audience.
- swed420 3y agoMicrosoft making the decision to own GitHub in the first place also speaks to my suspicion. Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.