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Is TOR compromised?
(arstechnica.com)
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this post was submitted on 30 Aug 2024
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How hard is it to implement a backdoor in a fully opensource project? (Assuming the project in question has a lot more eyes on it then an overworked developer)
Pretty much impossible, especially with so many eyes on the project. It is possible to intentionally introduce vulnerabilities into open source code and use that as a backdoor but for projects like tor keeping that hidden for long periods of time is incredibly difficult due to the number of people independently auditing the code.
Hard but not impossible. It's been done. XZ Utils, phpmyadmin, OpenBSD's IPSEC stack