Re: FOSS and backdoors in the US

Rich wrote:

Stefan Claas <pollux@tilde.club> wrote:

If I would be forced, which I doubt, I would comment the code with
something like this:
 
// backdoor begins here
 
backdoor code
 
// backdoor ends here
 
and put in the README how to exchange that code with proper one.

 
Likely would not work well.  Such forcing would likely also be
accompanied by a gag order preventing you from admitting the backdoor
even exists and so such comments and readme text would be a likely gag
order violation that would land you in jail.

Well, I gues this may only apply to big FOSS projects, where they can
force teams, or an individual team member, but not the millions of FOSS
programmers out there.

Another option for folks, living in West-Eurasia, might be to handle
over the correct code to people in BRICS countries and publish it there.

We should also not forget that Democrats (back then Senator Biden),
in the U.S., started the Crypto War ...

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Regards
Stefan