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> They'd effectively have a skeleton key that only they could use (or sell) that

this looks more like state sponsored attack and it doesn't look like someone joining and at one point realizing they want to implement this backdoor.

The guy joined the project 2 years ago, developed a test framework (which he then used to hide binary of the backdoor in which appears that is complex and others are still figuring out how it works) then he gradually disabled various security checks before activating it.




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