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Comment Backdoors and open-source (Score 1) 576

by eijk on Friday September 20, 2013 @02:10PM (#44905321) Attached to: Linus Torvalds Admits He's Been Asked To Insert Backdoor Into Linux

Read this for a theoretical possibility how backdoors could go unnoticed in open-source based systems: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backdoor_(computing)#Reflections_on_Trusting_Trust

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