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Re:Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server com... by heresie-dabord on Saturday March 30, 2024 @07:47AM (#39873942)
We live in a time of populous, wealthy dictatorships that have computer-science expertise are openly hostile to the US and Canada.

North America is only about 5% of the world's population. [1] (We can assume that malicious actors are in North America, too, but this helps to adjust our perspective.)

The percentage of maliciousness on the Internet is much higher.

[1] _ See continental subregions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_continents_and_contine...

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Re:Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server com... by tomthehero on Saturday March 30, 2024 @08:27AM (#39874191)
If you put it in other words, US and Canada are openly hostile to the rest of the world.

Bullies who would have supported Hitler had he been named Netanyahu.

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Re:Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server com... by heresie-dabord on Saturday March 30, 2024 @11:36AM (#39875845)
> If you put it in other words

You may of course choose whatever words you like. But your statement is nonsense, and the failures in the Middle East are all humanity's fault.

The kakistocracies of CN, RU, and IR are not the feeble foes of democracy and capitalism that they were in the 20th century.

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Re:Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server com... by richrichie on Saturday March 30, 2024 @11:21AM (#39875683)
Huh? The empirical evidence we have - thanks to Snowden leaks - paints a different picture. NSA is the biggest malicious actor with nearly unlimited resources at hand. They even insert hardware backdoors and intercept shipment to do that.
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Re:Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server com... by heresie-dabord on Saturday March 30, 2024 @05:03PM (#39878639)
> NSA is the biggest malicious actor

I'm curious, how do you rank CN, RU, and IR?

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Re:Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server com... by richrichie on Sunday March 31, 2024 @11:16AM (#39885013)
They are all active players, but no where close to the top dog.
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Re:Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server com... by rieter on Monday April 01, 2024 @10:01PM (#39901607)
That doesn't mean that the entire population of those countries is actively hostile to you.
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Re:Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server com... by account42 on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @08:19AM (#39916488)
The US government itself is openly hostile to the US (as well as to the rest of the world).

> The percentage of maliciousness on the Internet is much higher.

A baseless assumption.

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