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		tptacek on June 12, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Flame is Lame That's an awfully baroque government backdoor --- a misconfigured X.509 attribute on a certificate that turns out to be signed with a hash for which controlled collisions turn out to be feasible.

aparadja on June 12, 2012 [–]

Well, it does have a lot more plausible deniability than a straightforward backdoor. Which, of course, proves absolutely nothing.

tptacek on June 12, 2012 | [–]

So that makes Pinkie Pie's 92-step Chrome exploit especially likely to be a backdoor, then? :)

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