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Re:XZ backdoor: "It's RCE, not auth bypass, and gated/unrepl... by asveikau on Saturday March 30, 2024 @10:30PM (#39880808)
> The reason you can run an ancient simple binary on newer systems is that someone has deliberately made that possible.

I'm not talking about binaries. I'm talking about C sources. I've done the kind of work you're talking about. You're overestimating it.

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Re:XZ backdoor: "It's RCE, not auth bypass, and gated/unrepl... by bulatb on Saturday March 30, 2024 @10:46PM (#39880894)
I must have misread "plop that kind of library" as "plop that kind of binary" about five times. My bad.
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