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What we know about the xz Utils backdoor that almost infected the world
(arstechnica.com)
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this post was submitted on 01 Apr 2024
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It's crazy how they pressured/manipulated the maintainer. Especially fucked up considering he wasn't in a good mental state and was still helping the community by maintaining FOSS software.