Microsoft engineer Andres Freund found something strange when he was running routine tests of open-source software. He ended up uncovering a backdoor that could have enabled a major cyberattack.
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Our next guest may have stumbled onto a discovery that prevented a major global cyberattack, and that has turned him into an internet hero. Andres Freund works as a software engineer for Microsoft in San Francisco. He was running some routine tests when he noticed something peculiar. In the open-source software that powers servers for governments, companies and banks, he found a sort of backdoor. He is here to
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