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Re:The NSA called me after midnight and requested my source ... by Libeste on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @06:22PM (#22939969)
>For one, how could they expect to distribute it in a way that a bad guy was more likely to download than by going to the official site?

The original is both pay to own and not available outside of the US. So changing either of those things would work.

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Re:The NSA called me after midnight and requested my source ... by meowface on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @11:18PM (#22941732)
I suppose, but the actual process of hosting or sharing it seems a little convoluted. And, again, they could do all this without the source code, if their goal was simply to subtly backdoor it.
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