Gavin Andresen - 2012-04-12 17:30:55

Split from the press hits topic:

The only "skeleton key" I have is the private key for alert messages, that lets me sign messages that are broadcast and then displayed in the client (see https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Alerts for details, and the alerts that have been sent).

MAYBE he is saying that the core developers could slip in a change to the source code without anybody else noticing... but we've worked hard to make that impossible (with things like the gitian reproducible build system so people can verify that we are creating executables from the source code that anybody can look at).

Smells like plain-old FUD to me.