Sujet : Re: FOSS and backdoors in the US
De : pc+usenet (at) *nospam* asdf.org (Phil Carmody)
Groupes : sci.cryptDate : 30. Apr 2024, 11:29:00
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Rich <
rich@example.invalid> writes:
Stefan Claas <pollux@tilde.club> wrote:
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
...
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,
>
Your prior post did not specify FOSS vs. closed source.
It was, however, a response to:
Is there anything known how FOSS developers will deal with that?
so there weren't many dots to join.
Phil
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FOSS and backdoors in the US
Re: FOSS and backdoors in the US
