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It's possible to make a compiler backdoor that is "updatable" and therefore a lot less brittle. And yes this does make the backdoor easier to detect since it's now communicating over the network. But such flexibility could really future-proof the backdoor and let it evolve over time as the target language changes.

Who said it has to "generalize"? No virus generalizes to hack every program. That doesn't mean viruses aren't dangerous.

Also OSS makes up most of the modern stack, so access to source code is a given. And hand-crafting a backdoor when you have the source code is trivial because you can literally change anything you want with confidence.

Thanks for mentioning, I just updated my website and Github to use the new WAT functions.