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Re:Alibaba is leading a $27M investment in MariaDB by finnh on Friday September 29, 2017 @02:09PM (#15367607)
> excised immediately

Only if the backdoor is obvious. I doubt they would introduce a backdoor that reads

`if ($PWD = "supersecretbackdoorpwd") loginAs("root");`

But a subtle buffer overrun resulting in a 0day that's only obvious to the writers - that's much more likely.

Check out the Underhanded C contest for examples of ways exploits can hide in plain sight.

EDIT: I'm not saying that's what going to happen with Alibaba & MariaDb. I'm just saying that "open source" != "free of exploits and backdoors". One of the biggest untruths about open source is that, with enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.

Re:Alibaba is leading a $27M investment in MariaDB by gnbfrdjng on Friday September 29, 2017 @04:13PM (#15368738)
The backdoor would either be obvious (ie make outgoing connections) or it would have debatable value (maybe a killswitch?)