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I have the impression that ever since Snowden happened, yes. Any mention of a non open source OS gets accompanied by remarks about NSA, FBI and co.

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Open source projects are not shielded from this either. Plenty of paranoia, justified or not, going around these days.

https://igurublog.wordpress.com/2014/04/08/julian-assange-de...

http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/20/5231006/nsa-paid-10-milli...

https://www.quora.com/Is-there-any-backdoor-left-in-Unix-or-...

https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-the-nsa-may-have-put-a-backd...

On one hand, we've been privy to some of NSA's operations, on the other, there is still a lot left to be disclosed, most will of course, never be out in the open.

Let's not forget the great OpenBSD code audit caused when someone from the FBI claimed to have planted a backdoor. http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2010/12/openbs...

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