Wednesday, February 17, 2021

The problem with "Back Doors" in commercially bought software for all governments and companies on earth

When you write code in machine language no one can read it. And the further problem with this is creating a "Back door" to any software on earth is remarkably easy in machine language code. 

For example, you might in very few zeros and ones create a back door with the password "Zero or 1" as the password if you knew what you were doing. anyone looking at this (any human being) would think it's just a glitch that was overlooked in the software sort of like a "Burp" in a human being. All software has burps in it so to speak anyway simply because humans aren't perfect. As a result no software tends to be perfect either. The point in creating software is so that it does what you want it to. If it does what you want it to in a reasonable amount of time you might not care how many hundreds of "Burps" might be resident in the software.

But, what if one of the burps which might be as short as 10 or 12 digits or less is a Back door with a password of zero or 1 as it's password? Or I suppose it could also be any letter of the alphabet as well.

For a back door password code you likely could make it a one digit or one letter password which might not be noticed by literally anyone because it would be in machine language because they wouldn't know what it was and might think it was just another fluke or burp in the software that did nothing at all really or might do something really subtle they weren't aware of to tweek the software in one direction or another. So, because of this they likely would leave it alone if they hadn't written the software themselves and were just observing the code. Because they hadn't flowcharted it and programmed it themselves they might have no idea what it's purpose was or whether it was just a burp in the software or what. So, they likely would just leave it alone having no idea at all what it was. 

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