xz backdoor and autotools insanity
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I argue autotools’ convoluted nature is what enabled the xz backdoor in the first place. The truth is nobody needs to use autotools, and I show why.
  • Corngood
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    7 months ago

    If you stop shipping autotools generated artefacts in your tarballs, things will be a lot simpler.

    Weirdly enough the malicious code does look eerily similar to the benign code, because both are unnecessarily obfuscated.

    This is not a human written or readable file you’re talking about. It’s a generated script.