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    7 months ago

    It’s a safe bet that there are others (in FOSS) that remain undiscovered.

    I agree, but I don’t think that image (about survivors’ bias) applies to the op meme then, as that would imply that it only seems like open source backdoors are convoluted because we’ve not found the simple/obvious ones

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      7 months ago

      Survivorship bias or survival bias is the logical error of concentrating on entities that passed a selection process while overlooking those that did not. This can lead to incorrect conclusions because of incomplete data.

      In this case, the selection process is discovering human-evident back doors. It fits by my reading.