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Those changes on OSS are reviewed by a lot of people, this here is just released and reviewed by themselves only.



Sure, the ones officially contributed by the NSA. What you have to wonder is how much code was contributed by some seemingly normal community member that is actually a front for the NSA to introduce subtly flawed code that they can use to their advantage while being plausibly just a bug?

There are those who suspect Heartbleed came about this way.




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