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Originally Posted by AJHall
Sometimes a disgruntled coder or someone trying to protect their work will do that but 100% of the "backdoor" type stuff we've encountered over the years with coding staff has been accidental or unintentional and often due to lack of care or lack of experience. More often they don't know enough about security and overlook something or they're in a hurry and as a result they write fast and sloppy code that leaves a vulnerability we end up fixing later.
Unless you have reason to believe they're inserting malicious code I wouldn't worry about it too much.
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bologna! Although a sloppy programmer may leave backdoors open by mistake you should always assume the possibility they have left some sort of "killswitch" or a way for them to access your server in case he dosent get paid, especially if you hire them from an e-lance type of site. The only way to truly know is to have someone competent go through everything he has done on your server.