Now think of the advantage for intelligence services having that framing in the public mindshare. Probably all sorts of vulnerabilities in open source tooling these communities depend upon. Probably whole campaigns out there to stifle awareness of them as well and preserve the easy already found golden goose as long as possible, as well as campaigns to advertise and entrench the backdoored tools. I wonder how much collusion like this is out there? We won’t find out for 40 years in either case whenever this stuff is FOIA’ed if it even can be.