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Which is why a really good backdoor is a one line logic bug somewhere which is fiendishly difficult to trigger.


http://underhanded-c.org if people want examples of what could (and probably, somewhere, IS) being done.


Like the 2003 Linux kernel attempt https://lwn.net/Articles/57135/


Sure, however the problem that software is really hard also impacts bad actors. So it's probably at least as hard to write that one line logic bug and have it do exactly what you intended as to write equivalent real code that works precisely as intended.




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