• tedu@azorius.net
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    7 months ago

    And is the backdoor actually included in the crate or is this an overhyped nothingburger?

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      7 months ago

      The original backdoor only worked if xz was being used by a linked sshd binary. Unless several other packages were targeted coorsinated attack, all of this is just clickbait and irrelevant.