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Re:The NSA Called Me After Midnight and Requested My Source ... by apeace on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @02:01PM (#18294814)
The code was not open-sourced. It was only given to one party, and presumably did not come with a license to redistribute the source code.

This means all users of the software are less safe. If the NSA can find a bug in the code, they can unlock everyone's files, but nobody else could ever uncover that bug.

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Re:The NSA Called Me After Midnight and Requested My Source ... by StavrosK on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @02:09PM (#18294883)
Fair point.
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