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Everything I Know About the Xz Backdoor
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this post was submitted on 30 Mar 2024
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What a wild read. Definitely smells like nation state actor.
Timeframes of commits line up with afternoon/evening in Moscow.
I'm not really convinced. I haven't seen anything outside the capabilities of a talented individual, and such an exploit would be worth a lot of money, so the motivation is there.