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Re:Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server com... by bananapub on Friday March 29, 2024 @05:09PM (#39869046)
it's not weird at all?

randomly reverting two years of things across dozens of repositories will break them, almost definitely make them unbuildable, but also make them unreleasable in case any other change needs to happen soon.

all of their code needs to be audited to prove it shouldn't be deleted, of course, but that can't happen in the next ten minutes.

I swear that HN has the least-thought-through hot takes of any media in the world.

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Re:Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server com... by datascienced on Friday March 29, 2024 @06:36PM (#39869772)
Yeah if you tried to revert stuff that was done weeks ago on a relatively small team you know how much painstaking work it can be.
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Re:Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server com... by ryanwaggoner on Friday March 29, 2024 @11:56PM (#39871710)
* I swear that HN has the least-thought-through hot takes of any media in the world.*

The irony is too good.

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