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Yes, that is well known, but it doesn’t prevent the issue in TFA.

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How does it not? Applied literally to the article, it would have turned this backdoor into a compile time error.

Because you can’t trust the person backdooring your code to help you out by writing in this style.

Yes, they could literally violate the coding style, but presumably, that would draw more attention to what they've done, not less.

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How does it not? Applied literally to the article, it would have turned this backdoor into a compile time error.

Because you can’t trust the person backdooring your code to help you out by writing in this style.

Yes, they could literally violate the coding style, but presumably, that would draw more attention to what they've done, not less.

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