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Most large software companies do continuous scans of their own source code looking for potential backdoors. Obviously this is not guaranteed to catch such attempts but definitely necessary in the current environment where Zero days are so valuable.



Most of the tools I know in this space look for known issues.

OSS teams could spend the time and money running these tests, but this seems like a good area where governments and companies can step in to help.




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