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layer8
8 months ago
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The Linux backdoor attempt of 2003 (2013)
Yes, that is well known, but it doesn’t prevent the issue in TFA.
akira2501
8 months ago
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How does it not? Applied literally to the article, it would have turned this backdoor into a compile time error.
umanwizard
8 months ago
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Because you can’t trust the person backdooring your code to help you out by writing in this style.
akira2501
8 months ago
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Yes, they could literally violate the coding style, but presumably, that would draw more attention to what they've done, not less.
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