True, they could have shipped a backdoor since day 1 but it's unclear what their incentive would be to do so and they run the risk of it being found with a reverse engineering attempt.
Is there any basis in law under which the government can force a company to distribute altered binaries? If the government can force you to add a backdoor in your own product, in effect they have the power to demand that you perform free labour for them.
That would seem to form a basis for also demanding that a person work as a spy for them etc.
Is there any basis in law under which the government can force a company to distribute altered binaries? If the government can force you to add a backdoor in your own product, in effect they have the power to demand that you perform free labour for them.
That would seem to form a basis for also demanding that a person work as a spy for them etc.