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A secret way in, built by the same people who locked the front door.
means A hidden method of bypassing normal authentication in a system, left there deliberately or planted by an attacker.
from Coined in computing from the literal image of sneaking in the back way — early hackers in the 1980s used it for hardcoded passwords programmers left in software for debugging or control, before realizing anyone could find them.
famous caseNSA allegedly weakened Dual_EC_DRBG encryption standard deliberately
double edgesame door works for spies and criminals equally
legal fightgovernments keep demanding encryption backdoors, cryptographers keep refusing
ironyonce discovered, backdoors become everyone's front door