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Re:Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server com... by r0ckarong on Friday March 29, 2024 @12:51PM (#39866218)
> cannot resist feeling the entire point of that industry is to make companies pay for a security certificate so you can shift the blame onto someone else when things go wrong.

That's the entire point. You did everything you could by getting someone else look at it and saying it's fine.

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Re:Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server com... by numpad0 on Friday March 29, 2024 @09:31PM (#39870997)
This needs a Rust joke. You know, the problem with the whole certification charade is it slows down jobs and prevents __actual_problems getting evaluated. But is it safe?
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