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Re:The NSA Called Me After Midnight and Requested My Source ... by sixstringtheory on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @01:50PM (#18294707)
With source in hand, couldn’t they just distribute backdoored copies of said software?
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Re:The NSA Called Me After Midnight and Requested My Source ... by aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @02:11PM (#18294906)
It seems a little unlikely that the NSA would require the source code of a small shareware utility just to release a backdoored version.
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