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If you're really that paranoid that you believe such conspiracy theories, then simply compile and run the source code they provide, and run that instead of the binary they also provide.

But you have to admit, it's a pretty implausible conspiracy theory, since it would be so straightforward for you to do that. Because they're literally providing you the source code WITHOUT the backdoors, which you believe they don't want you to compile and run.

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how can i compile microsofts code? and there are easily systems which are so complex if you compile them the wrong way, you get other behaviour or more bugs.

and it may be also human error, not a conspiracy theory. if you do not have the source code and the recipe to build it yourself than you can not guarantuee that the inspected sourcecode (which was given to you either by disk or by a datablob over the internet) is the binary which you are currently running on your windows.

hell, perhaps they shipped an update which broke an security measure, and the update was shipped after you inspected the source.

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