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bug door
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n. [common] A hole in the security of a system deliberately left in place by
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designers or maintainers, implemented in the form of a deliberate but subtle
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and thus hard to spot bug. This can be implemented as a slightly mis-spelled
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variable, a typo, extra or missing parentheses or a confusing regex. If the
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bug door is subsequently found then it can be plausibly denied as a simple
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programming mistake.
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Also see back door.
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