On: The Linux backdoor attempt of 2003 (2013)

[layer8]

Yes, that is well known, but it doesn’t prevent the issue in TFA.

[akira2501 → layer8]

How does it not? Applied literally to the article, it would have turned this backdoor into a compile time error.

[umanwizard → akira2501]

Because you can’t trust the person backdooring your code to help you out by writing in this style.

[akira2501 → umanwizard]

Yes, they could literally violate the coding style, but presumably, that would draw more attention to what they've done, not less.