Half a Second: a free book on the XZ backdoor and the labor beneath open source

Posted by a_mastronardi on Saturday July 18, 2026 @10:24AM
from the half-second.com dept.

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Re:Half a Second: a free book on the XZ backdoor and the lab... by girst on Sunday July 19, 2026 @01:22AM (#48965220)

I strongly suspect that this book is little more than LLM output, based both on the writing itself and the existence of https://github.com/AdrianMastronardi/bookwright. I find it despicable that the "author" did not disclose this.

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Re:Half a Second: a free book on the XZ backdoor and the lab... by a_mastronardi on Sunday July 19, 2026 @04:51AM (#48966159)

Did I use AI agent to write it, YES. Is it just a little more that LLM output... I'm not the one to judge it.

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