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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Potato, potato....

Whether we call them 'undocumented commands' or a 'backdoor', the affect is more or less the same; a series of high-level commands not listed within the specs, preventing systems engineers/designers from planning around vulnerabilities and their potential for malicious use.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The dude that wrote this blog is a goof....

defines backdoor as “relating to something that is done secretly

effectively constitute a “private API”, and a company’s choice to not publicly document their private API

Idiot thinks these are two different things....

Are they are trying to argue that malicious intent is needed to define it as a back door?

Moron..

[–] FanBlade 11 points 1 month ago

You’re very smart. I didn’t realize that until you called someone a goof, idiot and moron, but now it’s very clear that you have far superior intelligence.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

A backdoor requires malicious intent, otherwise it's just a vulnerability

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