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    Backdoors (lemmy.ml)
    submitted 7 months ago by lemmyreader@lemmy.ml to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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    [–] CameronDev@programming.dev 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    To be fair, we only know of this one. There may well be other open source backdoors floating around with no detection. Was heartbleed really an accident?

    [–] xenoclast@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

    Yeah he didn't find the right unmaintained project. There are many many many cs undergrads starting projects that will become unmaintained pretty soon.

    [–] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    True. And the "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow" is a neat sounding thing from the past when the amount of code lines was not as much as now. Sometimes it is scary to see how long a vulnerability in the Linux kernel had been there for years, "waiting" to be exploited.

    [–] RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Still far better than a proprietary kernel made by a tech corp, carried hardly changed from release to release, even fewer people maintain, and if they do they might well be adding a backdoor themselves for their government agency friends.

    [–] Vilian@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago

    true, opensource can be flawed, but it's certain less flawed than a closed source alternatives

    [–] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

    Exactly.