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Re:Excellent succinct breakdown of the xz mess, from an Open... by francescovv on Friday April 05, 2024 @01:23PM (#39944895)
Hanlon's razor is useful to curb one's paranoia, but it is far from being a universal rule.

In fact, malice and incompetence are not necessarily mutually exclusive.

This very incident shows several instances where "Jia Tan" is being arguably incompetent, in addition to being clearly malicious: unintended breakage by adding extra space between "return" and "is_arch_extension_supported"; several redundant checks for `uname` == "Linux"; botched payload, so "test files" had to be replaced, with pretty fishy explanation; rather inefficient/slow GOT parsing, list goes on...

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