: Where are backdoors /security flaws from ?
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Backdoors and Security Flaws are ways to circumnavigate normal digital security or access permissions to get access to data that you shouldn’t have direct access to. The difference is backdoors are intentionally created or left there at the request of a government or other authority so that the “good guys” will always have a way in if they need to get someones information. This is very obviously not great as it is very hard to prevent backdoors from getting leaked or abused like the reports of NSA agents caught with people’s nude photos from iCloud and other cloud storage platforms.
As to where they come from, security flaws are generally oversights in the software design just like locking all the doors to your house but leaving a window unlocked.
As far as an example, as to what a flaw “really” is, as always there’s a [relevant XKCD](https://xkcd.com/1354/) about the HeartBleed vunerability.
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