> pcb's today contain too much 'made by hand' to hide much without the designer noticing...
Doesn't mean the layers have to be rendered with the modified/malicious version of KiCAD. They could just try to hide it if they detect a layer with id=spyware.
I'm just saying that this would be a very sneaky way to infiltrate the hardware industry, because currently all installed versions rely on the old domain - and that's where they will pull their updates from, too. So pushing out a newer release with that "spyware" modification would be super easy to realize.
Doesn't mean the layers have to be rendered with the modified/malicious version of KiCAD. They could just try to hide it if they detect a layer with id=spyware.
I'm just saying that this would be a very sneaky way to infiltrate the hardware industry, because currently all installed versions rely on the old domain - and that's where they will pull their updates from, too. So pushing out a newer release with that "spyware" modification would be super easy to realize.