Re:Xubuntu.org Might Be Compromised
by timefirstgrav on Sunday October 19, 2025 @11:47AM
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Jia Tan with the XZ backdoor was caught because some performance obsessed person noticed a tiny delay... I'm sure they learned their lesson and are ensuring their next backdoor doesn't impact performance.
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Re:Xubuntu.org Might Be Compromised
by 3eb7988a1663 on Sunday October 19, 2025 @12:07PM
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That is the insidious question - how many parallel efforts were/are in play when xz was going down? Surely that was not the only long term play to compromise an "unrelated" component of system security. The Jia Tan organization might have already inserted back doors into dozens of different projects by now.