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A comment on Curl’s backdoor threat. Parent comment

Re:Curl’s backdoor threat by kahlonel on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @12:48PM (#15228913)
> The sort of hypothetical security vulnerability here is likely to depend on programmer's inability to write safe C code.

FTFY.

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Re:Curl’s backdoor threat by AgentME on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @01:56PM (#15229601)
Well, if it was an intentional/coerced backdoor, then it doesn't matter how good of a C programmer the author is. Actually, you could argue the better they are, the higher the risk is that they'd be successful in hiding the backdoor.
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