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XZ backdoor in a nutshell
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this post was submitted on 01 Apr 2024
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There's gotta be a better way to verify programs then just what the devs do. For example patching the fuzzer, that should be seen as a clear separation of duties problem.
That constant issue of low Dev/high use dependencies is awful and no one I've met on the business end can seem to figure out that need to support those kind of people or accept, what should frankly be, legal liability for what goes wrong. This isn't news its just a cover song. And its not an open source problem, its just a software problem. (