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[–]magnora7 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I've never considered the possibility a dependency for a main OS could be a backdoor. Certainly would be a good way to backdoor linux

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yep. even the kernel has unknown binary code from third party vendors. throw in the intel management engine backdoor and 95%+ of systems could be compromisable.