what is a backdoor?

a backdoor is simply a way of accessing something through alternative, often unwanted means...

this can come in many forms, from a bug in a program that allows illegitimate access to data when some condition is met to a piece of software specifically written to allow remote access to a computer...

backdoors are security vulnerabilities that ideally should be kept to a minimum or eliminated entirely if possible... the computer owner may actually make use of some backdoors but that is a security trade-off that should only be made when fully aware of the potential consequences...

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