What's so cool about the UNIX philosophy? What would a heavy UNIX philosophy operating system look like? What is the most heavy UNIX philosophy operating system out there at the moment, besides UNIX itself?
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Anonymous2013-02-16 21:53
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A backdoor isn't going to be as obvious as if (is_fbi == TRUE) { ... They are usually intentional ``bugs'', e.g. an intentional overflow exploit that allows the user to run malicious code.
You can't just ``read the source code'' and infer these things. The only effective method is auditing. Hence all the drama with OpenBSD: http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=129236621626462