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Jia Tan with the XZ backdoor was caught because some performance obsessed person noticed a tiny delay... I'm sure they learned their lesson and are ensuring th
by timefirstgrav 11mo ago
Jia Tan with the XZ backdoor was caught because some performance obsessed person noticed a tiny delay... I'm sure they learned their lesson and are ensuring their next backdoor doesn't impact performance.
- 3eb7988a1663 11mo agoThat is the insidious question - how many parallel efforts were/are in play when xz was going down? Surely that was not the only long term plan to compromise an "unrelated" component of system security. The Jia Tan organization might have already inserted back doors into dozens of different projects by now.