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Re:Deep Dive into XZ Utils Backdoor – Columbia Engineering G... by lyu07282 on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @05:25AM (#40208895)
What is seatest? Can you elaborate? That's the first time I heard that mentioned
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Re:Deep Dive into XZ Utils Backdoor – Columbia Engineering G... by throwaway4good on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @05:34AM (#40208956)
https://github.com/keithn/seatest

Which Jia Tan turns into "s-test".

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Re:Deep Dive into XZ Utils Backdoor – Columbia Engineering G... by lyu07282 on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @06:04AM (#40209153)
They used test driven development for the backdoor development? Kind of hilarious ngl
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Re:Deep Dive into XZ Utils Backdoor – Columbia Engineering G... by throwaway4good on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @07:11AM (#40209667)
Yes. Test is a perfect place to hide an attack - reviewers pay far less attention to test code than the (what they perceive to be) production code.
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