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Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year ago

XZ backdoor in a nutshell

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XZ backdoor in a nutshell

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Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year ago

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The scary thing about this is thinking about potential undetected backdoors similar to this existing in the wild. Hopefully the lessons learned from the xz backdoor will help us to prevent similar backdoors in the future.

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