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Re:XZ Backdoor: Times, damned times, and scams by beanjuiceII on Sunday March 31, 2024 @11:25PM (#39890661)
How is it down the drain? You know he didn't achieve his goals?
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Re:XZ Backdoor: Times, damned times, and scams by EasyMark on Monday April 01, 2024 @12:43AM (#39890993)
yep, maybe it was a false flag to take people's eye off the -other- backdoor lol
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Re:XZ Backdoor: Times, damned times, and scams by dotps1 on Monday April 01, 2024 @06:25AM (#39892551)
Occam's razor says that the perpetrators likely didn't spend years building up trust to hack some early adopters before the releases got more stable.

It would be like spending hours baking bread only to eat it before it goes in the oven.

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