It turns out that conspiracies are really hard to maintain the larger the network gets due to network effects. All it takes is one guy to run it, get different

It turns out that conspiracies are really hard to maintain the larger the network gets due to network effects. All it takes is one guy to run it, get different results and go “guys I’m noticing something weird” to start the ball rolling. As a proof point, look at what happened to the attack on ssh by way of a xz utils back door.