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Comment by acqq

I remember some months ago where they only claimed fixing something minor (like, something that's not even an executable but some text-based or at least data file) in the patch and the list included also a huge amount of files including cryptwhatever.dll (not the actual name). "Backdoor time" thought I. As little as I checked however, it didn't look like a real smoking gun then.

It seems a common practice somehow that since some time their updates aren't "hand picked" but generated by the computer without too much human control or that the programmers don't have time, or simply nobody cares there anymore.

I'd be glad if somebody would sensibly explain all that. Including these recent "everything you type will be transferred" and "the list of all your files will be made" claims.

parent acqq 11 years ago

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