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Re:Israel Hacked Kaspersky, Then Tipped NSA Its Tools Had Be... by thrawnjuxt on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @01:56AM (#15447579)
Should we be afraid of tools like Intellij as well? I have been looking into Kotlin, and really like it so far, but the idea of a backdoor getting added to my apps by the compiler of the language is straight out of a nightmare.
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Re:Israel Hacked Kaspersky, Then Tipped NSA Its Tools Had Be... by threeseed on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @02:11AM (#15447623)
Just decompile your built JAR files and go through the source code yourself if you're worried.

http://www.benf.org/other/cfr/

Also JetBrains is based in Czech Republic not Russia.

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Re:Israel Hacked Kaspersky, Then Tipped NSA Its Tools Had Be... by rounce on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @02:23AM (#15447672)
JetBrains is registered in the Czech Republic but most development takes place in St Petersburg.
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