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Originally Posted by adulttraffic
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.
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This is why the very first line of my response says "Sometimes a disgruntled coder or someone trying to protect their work will do that"
IMO the only way to really know is to run penetration tests and use the same methods that hackers use to find exploits and breaches in software. Even someone "competent" is likely to miss something and no coder out there knows everything or will be able to identify every possible exploit.
