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Note, though, that the original motivation for the delays was specifically about supply chain attacks, meaning deliberately introduced backdoors. The attacker in a supply chain attack doesn't need any time to figure out how to exploit it; if they need to wait any time it's for people to install the software so they have some targets. Deliberately introducing a delay is there to give the defenders, and the defenders' LLM, time to detect the backdoor before the attacker has a chance to exploit it.

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