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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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