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[–] admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

World's biggest backdoor

~~Puh-lease. At least Heartbleed made it into production at enormous scale.~~

I stand corrected.

[–] yoevli@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

Heartbleed was the result of an accidental buffer overread bug, not a backdoor.

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