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There aren't backdoors in OS X and Windows that are specifically designed by or for the NSA, but since we can't see about half of the source (at least in OS X)

by kunai 13y ago

There aren't backdoors in OS X and Windows that are specifically designed by or for the NSA, but since we can't see about half of the source (at least in OS X) then they can exploit any backdoor that may be present without our knowledge. Ubuntu fares a bit better, but with the proprietary blobs, you never know.

jiggy2011 13y ago
I'd be curious how much work has been done to reverse engineer OS X / Windows. I can't believe that nobody has done it. And how successful these would be at finding potential backdoors?
- kunai 13y ago
  Only a Donald Knuth-level computer scientist would be able to reverse engineer OS X to assembly, and try to figure out any backdoors from it.
- neology 13y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAKEY https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAKEY