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this post was submitted on 18 Mar 2026
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The XZ thing was almost certainly some nation state actor, imo.
Whats the XZ thing? Im out of the loop
some rando gained the trust of the xz maintainer and tried to sneak in a very sophisticated backdoor. luckily caught, but i wonder if we had another project compromised and don't even know about it.
If you have an hour, this video from Veritasium about it is pretty good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoag03mSuXQ