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5th April 2024 - Link Blog

Everything I Know About the XZ Backdoor (via) Evan Boehs provides the most detailed timeline I’ve seen of the recent xz story, where a backdoor was inserted into the xz compression library in an attempt to compromise OpenSSH.

Posted 5th April 2024 at 10:58 pm

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