i am not a code contributor, so it is hard for me to gauge such complaints, but i tend to feel that there are simply too many eyes on the project to allow such security lapses. unless all developers decide at once to comply with changes that threatened the security of the USA. i'm not convinced that would happen.
http://www.eet.com/sys/news/ showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=DOULNYXURUXKKQSNDBCCKHY?articleID=18900949
thankfully, they interviewed some folks that don't seem to agree.
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At least one embedded expert thought O'Dowd was overstating his case. "I think it's pure FUD [fear, uncertainty and doubt]," said Rick Lehrbaum, a respected board-level-computing guru and former president of Ampro Computer and currently operator of the developer site LinuxDevices.com. "I think the insecurity he's concerned about is an intentional back door and this [Linux] is the most transparent operating system in existence."
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