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The beauty of this backdoor, for all its faults, is that it was reasonable to believe that it wasn't a backdoor. And it was also reasonable to believe that it was. This backdoor is quite deniable, elegantly so.

So far I have disagreed with tptacek when it comes to what's backdoored and not. But I can understand his reasoning, and it's quite sensible.




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