Technologist vs spy: the xz backdoor debate
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Well — we just witnessed one of the most daring infosec capers of my career. Here’s what we know so far: some time ago, an unknown party evidently noticed that liblzma (aka xz) — a relatively obscure open-source compression library — was a dependency of

Thought this was a good read exploring some how the “how and why” including several apparent sock puppet accounts that convinced the original dev (Lasse Collin) to hand over the baton.

  • jackpot
    346·
    8 months ago

    imagine how pissed they are. or maybe they silently alerted the microsoft guy themselves as they only did it for cash and theyd been paid

    • baseless_discourse@mander.xyz
      24·
      8 months ago

      I am sure most super powers in the world can easily sink 2 years to maintain an obscure project in order to break system as important as openssh.

      I doubt they will be pissed for one failure, and we can only hope there isn’t more vulnerable projects out there (spoiler alert: probably many).