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.

  • @speaker_hat
    3•3 months ago

    Do you think Jia Tan is alive now to talk about his famous bug?

    • @0xD@infosec.pub
      4•3 months ago

      Jia Tan is most definitely not a person, just the publicly facing account of a group of people.