Bitcoin Warns Of State Attack In Binaries

[Georgi Guninski]

On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 02:23:06AM -0400, grarpamp wrote:
> https://bitcoin.org/en/alert/2016-08-17-binary-safety
> Bitcoin.org has reason to suspect that the binaries for the upcoming
> Bitcoin Core release will likely be targeted by state sponsored
> attackers. As a website, Bitcoin.org does not have the necessary
> technical resources to guarantee that we can defend ourselves from
> attackers of this calibre. We ask the Bitcoin community, and in
> particular the Chinese Bitcoin community to be extra vigilant when
> downloading binaries from our website.
>

Is this a joke?

What is the difference between running backdoored bitcoin client and
backdoored porn viewer?

Not to mention malware and OSes backdoored by default (I suspect all
major OSes).

If the state can own their binaries, likely it can own a lot of other
binaries.