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this post was submitted on 13 Aug 2023
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Yesterday I would have said 'blah, they would not care about my particular small project'. But since then I read the paper recommended by a user in this post about building a compromised compiler that would installs a back-door to a type of login field. I now think it is not so crazy to think that intelligence agencies might collude with Microsoft to insert specific back-doors that somehow allows them to break privacy-related protocols or even recover private keys. Many of these might rely on a specific fundamental principle and so this could be recognized and exploited by a compiler. I came here for a practical answer to a simple practical situation, but I have learned a lot extra ๐
I think there is more to this. Maybe you are targeted because you(r project) reach someone else (the actual target, who you may not even know), but I could also imagine it happening like data mining in the past years: they are not after me or you, they are after everyone and anyone they can reach.