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XZ backdoor in a nutshell (lemmy.zip)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (5 children)

did we find out who was that guy and why was he doing that?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

Probably a state actor

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

The CIA will know, we will most likely not.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago (14 children)

Any additional information been found on the user?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

as long as you're up to date on everything here: https://boehs.org/node/everything-i-know-about-the-xz-backdoor

the only additional thing i've seen noted is a possibilty that they were using Arch based on investigation of the tarball that they provided to distro maintainers

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