Long-time contributor Julian Assange, using a sophisticated regular expression utility on the PostgreSQL source code, found multiple back doors for the US National Security Agency created by newer contributor Tom Lane. As a result, Mr. Lane has been dismissed from the project.

Of his diligence in ferreting Assange said, "It is impossible to correct abuses unless we know that they’re going on." He went on to say, "I had always been worried about Mr. Lane's connections to the US Foreign Service, so I dug deeper: much deeper than anyone else thought to dig."