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lazidetoday at 5:24 PM1 replyview on HN

In open source, someone (many, many) someone’s can at least check.

Closed source…..


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Twirrimtoday at 5:36 PM

Not sure why you're getting downvoted, this is the entire point of open source.

Does such a bug exist in Windows? OSX? Who checks? If someone finds the key in memory, can they tell what conditions might be causing it and where?

Their only recourse under those situations is to hand it off to the OS Vendor and trust that what they implement does solve the problem, and trust that it wasn't a deliberate back-door that is now being replaced by another back-door.

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