Identity is a red herring. Backdoors are intentional vulnerabilities and are discoverable through vulnerability analysis. You can't solve identity, and real, v

Identity is a red herring. Backdoors are intentional vulnerabilities and are discoverable through vulnerability analysis. You can't solve identity, and real, verified people can still betray you. Even trustworthy people can betray you, either unwillingly or unwittingly. You can't solve vulnerability analysis either (it's the halting problem), but you also can't shirk it. You might as well go all in on it rather than undermining the basis of open source collaboration and many eyes making bugs shallow. But it certainly is a wake up call of some kind.