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Re:Xzbot: Notes, honeypot, and exploit demo for the xz backd... by justinclift on Monday April 01, 2024 @07:33PM (#39900654)
It'll be kind of tragic if this backdoor turns out to be the developer's pet "enable remote debugging" code, and they didn't mean for it to get out into a release. ;)
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Re:Xzbot: Notes, honeypot, and exploit demo for the xz backd... by unkulunkulu on Monday April 01, 2024 @09:46PM (#39901524)
I would be scared to work near a person who writes his debugging tools this way :D
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Re:Xzbot: Notes, honeypot, and exploit demo for the xz backd... by justinclift on Tuesday April 02, 2024 @12:52AM (#39902499)
Heh Heh Heh

"It seemed like a good idea at the time" is a pretty common story though. ;)

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