I know you’re be facetious here and I’m ignorant to actual application security methodology. I do have to ask though, when you are looking for something in code that could be a security risk, isn’t it possible to look for methods or functions used to lookup DNS, outbound network calls, or even libraries used to obfuscate code? It seems to me that most programmers wouldn’t go through lengths to obfuscate their code and would want it to be readable/maintainable, so doing so would be a red flag.

Obviously no one is going to search for “evil spyware” when auditing code. Your point stands it is not as simple as that.

I mean a simple

grep -r “string” *

Does wonders to find anything, but you need to know what you’re looking for. I’d probably look for DNS names that end in government or China specific TLDs to start with.

Yes, if it is a tax on speculation, investments, and gambling. I can get behind it being a trickle down system that the wealthy can’t opt out of.

I personally really dislike new reddit and the Photon theme. I’d say no to any change to my main instance.

It feels like politics in America is a game of team sports. Red vs Blue. No compromising, you either win or lose.