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Backdoor, bugdoor or or "convenient" bug... you can spot in the source code...

Now, have a look at machine code which is spit out by compilers... and there, right there... no bug or backdoor in the source code though, but yet... how would you call that? compiler-injected-door?

To fight this you just need to trust and audit those small pieces of s..oftware which are gcc/clang(llvm).



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