Re:Excellent succinct breakdown of the xz mess, from an Open...
by PreInternet01 on Friday April 05, 2024 @11:31AM
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> much of the emerging narrative about this backdoor that you can read all over the net is based on idle speculation
...which sums up the situation quite nicely.
This was a pretty bad attack on a certain ecosystem. The ecosystem will recover, or not, regardless of your feelings. Unless you're in a position to truly make a difference, just sit back and enjoy the ride...
Re:Excellent succinct breakdown of the xz mess, from an Open...
by fmajid on Friday April 05, 2024 @07:35PM
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There is some protection to be had in using non-mainstream platforms (in my case, Alpine Linux, OpenBSD and Illumos, though I do have some Ubuntu or Pop-OS! laptops).
...which sums up the situation quite nicely.
This was a pretty bad attack on a certain ecosystem. The ecosystem will recover, or not, regardless of your feelings. Unless you're in a position to truly make a difference, just sit back and enjoy the ride...