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[–] justastranger -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're talking about exploits. They were talking about backdoors. The are not the same thing.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Open source code isn’t immune to backdoors. It’s impossible to exhaustively test every interaction in massive code bases for unintended behavior.

The upside of open source is that a well intentioned person might find a backdoor and get it fixed. Up until then it might be someone’s backdoor.

Better?