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> Also I haven't seen any discovered backdoor/vulnerability on widespread open source product yet.

One could argue that the Debian SSL issue[0] would qualify as such a backdoor/vulnerability, although I don’t want to argue that it was introduced maliciously, merely that it could have been introduce with such intentions.

[0] http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1571



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