• noddy@beehaw.org
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    9 months ago

    The scary thing about this is thinking about potential undetected backdoors similar to this existing in the wild. Hopefully the lessons learned from the xz backdoor will help us to prevent similar backdoors in the future.

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      9 months ago

      I think we need focus on zero trust when it comes to upstream software

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          9 months ago

          It is fine to use them just know how they work and check the commit log.

          That of course requires you to pull from got instead of a tarball

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                9 months ago

                i’m not an expert, but my reading was that it was hidden in a binary used for testing EDIT: oh yeah, i see what you mean