backdoors for fun and profit
"If the US government forces backdoors into Linux they will be detectable and stripped out by distros."
Nope. Those distros didn't strip out the glaringly obvious backdoor in liblzma that created an epic security hole in systemd a couple of years ago.
BTW, a well designed backdoor will be almost impossible to detect. Read Ken Thompson's "Reflections on Trusting Trust" paper from the 1980s.
