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Re:XZ backdoor: "It's RCE, not auth bypass, and gated/unrepl... by nurple on Saturday March 30, 2024 @08:10PM (#39879960)
I think one interesting corollary here is how the Ken Thompson attack was discovered at PWB[0] because it had a memory performance bug[1].

  [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PWB/UNIX
  [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38020792
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