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Deleberate Malware Insertion

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This question made me sit and think for a while. I was wondering why deliberately inserting malware into code you are developing is not an example of negligence. It’s a test process isn’t it? I’m sure when developing anti-malware software, they need some sort of testing process to see how well his/her/their software copes with the real malware. And when developing a software, don’t developers or testers attempt to break and exploit software to see its weakness, and how well it performs, to evaluate its capability, attribution, and etc?

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I’d say the answers to your 2 question both are yes. Why do you ask?

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OP, curious question. Why do you need/want to know?

This happened this week!

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Read https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/03/sabotage-code-added-to-popular-npm-package-wiped-files-in-russia-and-belarus/

You can see how the author obfuscated the code so it wasn’t clear what the code was going to do.

So you tell me if your developers and testers test for geolocation and more?
Do they have access to SOURCE?

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