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backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to ssh server compromise
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Why didn't this become a thing? Surely in 2024, we should be able to build packages from source and sign releases with a private key.
It's becoming more of a thing but a lot of projects are so old that they haven't been able to fix their entire build process yet