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Re:Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server com... by matsemann on Saturday March 30, 2024 @05:09AM (#39873133)
Are you raising the same concerns and targeting individuals behind all other sensitive projects? No, because that would be insane.

It's weird to have one set of standards to a maintainer since 2009 or so, and different standards for others. This witch hunt is just post-hoc smartassery.

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Re:Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server com... by jnxx on Saturday March 30, 2024 @07:33AM (#39873860)
Yes, I think if a project has backdoors and its old maintainers are unable to review them, I am more critical than with normal projects. As said, compression is used everywhere and in embedded systems, it touches a lot of critical stuff. And the project went straight for that since the beginning.

And this is in part because I can not even tell for sure that he even exists. If I had met him a few times in a bar, I would be more inclined to believe he is not involved.

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Re:Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server com... by saagarjha on Saturday March 30, 2024 @08:38AM (#39874265)
> As said, compression is used everywhere and in embedded systems, it touches a lot of critical stuff. And the project went straight for that since the beginning.

Uh, because it's a compression library?

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Re:Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server com... by ljahier on Saturday March 30, 2024 @03:20PM (#39877762)
From the project readme: > XZ Utils provide a general-purpose data-compression library plus 21 command-line tools.

https://git.tukaani.org/?p=xz.git;a=blob;f=README;h=ac812ff1...

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Re:Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server com... by UncleEntity on Saturday March 30, 2024 @09:38AM (#39874756)
I'm inclined to believe that whatever state actor was involved sent a memo to their sockpuppets to do whatever they can to deflect blame away.

See what I did there?

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