I am taken back to the 1980’s era of Sendmail back doors. At least this intentional back door is unlikely to cause an Internet outage, but almost certainly will be used as a pivot to deploy ransomware.
For years, a backdoor in popular KiwiSDR product gave root to project developer. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021… [quite the debugging feature... would you like root with that?]

Jul 17, 2021 · 12:26 PM UTC

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